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    If you have a server backup drive on WHS V1, can you disconnect that drive, install Vail on existing system, connect WHS V1 server backup drive and restore your folders from that backup drive.
    • Moved by Daniel Chow - MSFT Monday, May 31, 2010 12:52 PM wrong forum (From:Microsoft Fix it Center)
    Monday, May 31, 2010 12:12 PM

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    You can't "restore" it in the sense that you can use the Server backup functionality in Vail to restore from the drive. It's a different format, and there are differences in the default shares that would make that a bit challenging. You can, however, connect the drive to a computer and copy the files into your shares.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Monday, May 31, 2010 1:36 PM
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    You can't "restore" it in the sense that you can use the Server backup functionality in Vail to restore from the drive. It's a different format, and there are differences in the default shares that would make that a bit challenging. You can, however, connect the drive to a computer and copy the files into your shares.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Monday, May 31, 2010 1:36 PM
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    Thanks Ken for the reply. As I have read on this and other forums the proccess to copy existing data across from V1 to V2 is going to be a lengthy one.
    Tuesday, June 1, 2010 7:17 AM
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    However, whs v1 backups store the data in folders marked with the date the backup was performed (I'm assuming they are incremental) so which "folders" should be copied over?

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    Sam

    Wednesday, July 7, 2010 7:24 AM
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    Just like home computer backups, every backup is a "full" backup of whatever shares you backed up.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Wednesday, July 7, 2010 9:43 AM
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