I just returned from a vacation. I had stored all of the photos I took on my netbook. Unfortuantely, by the time I tried to get those photos off of the netbook's hard drive, that drive crashed. I lost a big percentage of those photos. This got me motivated
to back up my WHS server. I first tried a 2 TB and a 1.5 TB drive, and was disappointed to learn that WHS doesn't combine this bunch of disks. I have one folder with just over 2 TB on it (music files). I decided to try putting together a RAID 5 Box with 4
x 1.5 TB drives, and that has thus far been working well. I read someplace that you shouldn't use hardware RAID with WHS, but I assume that is for the storage pool and not the backup disk.
My questions:
***Is there a way to automate server backups? I have a little less than double the needed space on my backup drive, but some sort of "changed files" backup system would work well.
***Once a lengthy backup has been started, is it possible to stop it temporarily and then have it pick up where it left off? I'm thinking about adding a new USB 3.0 card, and will need to shut down the server to install it.
***Any issue with my choice of a RAID 5 array for backing up the server?
Thanks for your help.
