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    I haven't been able to try this stuff out so I am asking here first. What are the special notebok features of WHS and the Connector. I read that backup will only be done if the notebook is plugged into power to safe the battery, which is good. But there are other scenarios.

    First of all, what happens if I take the notebook with out of the home. Will I always get a notification that the connection to the server was lost? Or is there an option/does it automatically detect that this is a notebook and there is not annoying info every time I leave or turn on the machine at another location?

    What about sleep? I heard that you will wake up a sleeping machine for the backup and put it back to sleep. Is this Vista-only or does it work with XPs mode as well? I guess this will only work if you have your notebook connected to the server via an ethernet cable? What happens if it is using Wifi? Will it back up if the machine is awake? Will it backup if the machine is sleeping?

    Kind regards,
    Gregor Herdmann

    Tuesday, February 13, 2007 4:36 PM

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    If you turn off backup for your laptop from the UI(say, before leaving for a business trip or vacation), the server will tell the client not to wake up in the middle of the night anymore. If you don't turn off, it will wake up try to get to the server and when it fails (after 3 attempts, I think) it goes back to sleep.
    Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:16 PM
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    To answer at least one of your questions my primary laptop is used away from my Home Server and it rarely ever prompts that it cant connect to the server.  The icon in the taskbar grey's out and if you hover over it, it states that it is not connected.  Usually the prompts saying it cant connect to the server are only at boot.  The warning messages are not annoying or intrusive at all from any of my experiences with my 2 separate Windows Home Servers that I am testing.  Sometimes they are inaccurate but that has more to do with it being Beta than anything else.
    Tuesday, February 13, 2007 4:46 PM
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    We do not use wake on lan for various reasons. The machine wakes itself up at a predefined time slot (backup window) and tells the server to back it up. It goes back to sleep as soon as the backup is over.
    Tuesday, February 13, 2007 6:02 PM
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    Ok, but how does this work? Is the event to wake up set under all circumstances or doesn't it trigger the wake up when there was no connection when going to sleep mode? Would my notebook basically wake up every night, notice that there is no server and go back to sleep if I have it in my hotel room plugged into power?
    Tuesday, February 13, 2007 6:08 PM
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    If you turn off backup for your laptop from the UI(say, before leaving for a business trip or vacation), the server will tell the client not to wake up in the middle of the night anymore. If you don't turn off, it will wake up try to get to the server and when it fails (after 3 attempts, I think) it goes back to sleep.
    Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:16 PM
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