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    I plan to replace my 2 year old homebuilt WHS with a new Acer WHS.  I have several backups of old machines that I'd like to keep and migrate to the new WHS.  Is there a straightforward way to do this?
    Friday, October 16, 2009 7:15 PM

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    The Home Computer Backup and Restore technical brief has a section which describes how to do this. If your need is infrequent, that's probably the simplest thing to do. Or you can install the Backup DataBase Backup add-in, which automates (somewhat) the same procedure.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    • Proposed as answer by kariya21Moderator Friday, October 16, 2009 11:43 PM
    • Marked as answer by florrv Sunday, October 18, 2009 3:35 PM
    Friday, October 16, 2009 8:27 PM
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    The Home Computer Backup and Restore technical brief has a section which describes how to do this. If your need is infrequent, that's probably the simplest thing to do. Or you can install the Backup DataBase Backup add-in, which automates (somewhat) the same procedure.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    • Proposed as answer by kariya21Moderator Friday, October 16, 2009 11:43 PM
    • Marked as answer by florrv Sunday, October 18, 2009 3:35 PM
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    This is exactly what I was looking for!  One additional question:  I don't have an external hard drive large enough to save a copy of the backup database (they are all attached to the current WHS...yikes!). Is there any way to do this over the network while both WHS boxes are on the network?
    Sunday, October 18, 2009 3:34 PM
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    This is exactly what I was looking for!  One additional question:  I don't have an external hard drive large enough to save a copy of the backup database (they are all attached to the current WHS...yikes!). Is there any way to do this over the network while both WHS boxes are on the network?
    Although unsupported, you could probably copy the entire backup database folder from your old server to one of the shares (\\server\[sharename]) on your new server.  Then disable the appropriate services on the new server as mentioned in the technical brief Ken linked you to before.  Once you've done that, you should be able to move the contents of the database folder from your server share on your new server to D:\folders\{000......} on your new server.  NOTE:  It is extremely important that when you move the database from the share on your new server to it's final location (D:\folders\{000....}), you access the the database folder by using the UNC path (\\server\[sharename]) to access the database folder on the new server.  Do not try to move anything from D:\shares.
    Sunday, October 18, 2009 11:48 PM
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