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    I think i know the answer but i'm going to ask anyway.  I have configured a backup drive in the server storage section, Great! I have told WHS to backup the shares to this backup drive, Great! All works great! Now I have a backup of my duplicated data, I know, I know, call me paranoid, but i've had a bad experience with WHS and drive failures, and you can never be too careful, my data is really really really important to me, I'll never be able to get some of those pics again, I even keep a DVD backup in a safe of those.

    Anyway, onto my question, how do i automate this? Seems a little silly and counter intuative to have to manually do this.
    Monday, August 24, 2009 8:19 PM

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    Well you can use a tool called SyncToy to back up certain folders on your server. By scheduling them you can have this done automatically. The following guide should help you. Moderators, I read the rules for this forum and did not see that it was not ok to post links to guides, please correct me if I'm breaking the rules.

    http://www.homeserverhacks.com/2009/02/syncing-two-windows-home-servers.html

    Remember that rather than specifying another server in step 10, you simply specify the hard drive you wish to back up to.
    • Proposed as answer by kingslaye505 Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:45 AM
    • Marked as answer by Acid Crinkle Tuesday, September 1, 2009 3:27 PM
    Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:23 AM

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    No current way to automate this (maybe with a logged in admin, an open console and some macto tools you could do it anyway). Mainly (I assume) because an automated backup would have difficulties to handle a full target disk. Also you are required to change the backup medium anyway, since the most current backup makes no sense, if the disk, on which it is stored, will burn out together with the PC during a thunderstorm.

    If you have enouth space or a second WHS, you could create a script to copy the changed content of shared folders to that device and run this as Scheduled task (but it will store the data inefficiently, since it does not use tombstones).

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    Monday, August 24, 2009 8:52 PM
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    Well you can use a tool called SyncToy to back up certain folders on your server. By scheduling them you can have this done automatically. The following guide should help you. Moderators, I read the rules for this forum and did not see that it was not ok to post links to guides, please correct me if I'm breaking the rules.

    http://www.homeserverhacks.com/2009/02/syncing-two-windows-home-servers.html

    Remember that rather than specifying another server in step 10, you simply specify the hard drive you wish to back up to.
    • Proposed as answer by kingslaye505 Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:45 AM
    • Marked as answer by Acid Crinkle Tuesday, September 1, 2009 3:27 PM
    Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:23 AM
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    Well you can use a tool called SyncToy to back up certain folders on your server. By scheduling them you can have this done automatically. The following guide should help you. Moderators, I read the rules for this forum and did not see that it was not ok to post links to guides, please correct me if I'm breaking the rules.

    No problem.  You're good.  :)

    http://www.homeserverhacks.com/2009/02/syncing-two-windows-home-servers.html

    Remember that rather than specifying another server in step 10, you simply specify the hard drive you wish to back up to.

    Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:41 AM
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    Ok, I have setup SyncToy 2.0 and it works perfectly on a schedule, had it running for nearly two weeks and no problems at all, a great little solution.
    Tuesday, September 1, 2009 3:30 PM