*Inline..
Art [artfudd] Folden
I'm a PC and Windows 7 sucks less!
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"kariya21 [MVP]" wrote in message
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Nancy.. you're not alone in being confused. I am so confused with Vail, as to what is
being backed up where and why, that I am about ready to just scrap it and turn the Vail
server back into a regular computer. I have a total of almost 3 terabytes of hard drives
attached to Vail, yet I am being told the server backups (which has 3 X 500 GB assigned to
it - 2 X 500GB internal drives, and one 500 GB external drive) are unsuccessful due to
there not being enough room. Yet the properties summary shows the external 500GB drive
half full, one internal 500GB drive right full, and the other internal 500GB drive empty.
*Nowhere do you say how much data you're trying to backup though.
**Yes I did... 3 operating systems, and 45 GB of music, video, pics, etc.
I have a 1.5 TB hard drive assigned to the default storage pool, and it is half full -
52GB for folders (what folders I have no idea, but I assumed it was shares since that
nearly matches what I actually copied over to shares), 235 GB for client computer backups
(only 3 clients), 212 GB for Data protection (supposedly duplication I guess, but I am
unclear as to exactly what gets duplicated), and 605 GB free space.
*Data Protection is also where the amount of storage used for ECC gets listed. As for
what gets duplicated, that depends on whether you've changed any of the default settings
or not. If not, the default is everything except Shadow Copies (and perhaps Client
Computer Backups, not sure about that one as I've sufficiently "altered" my Vail install
at this point).
**I didn't change any defaults. What is ECC? And exactly what is shadow copies? Copies of
what?
I keep switching drives from one to the other because I am totally confused as to which
section (storage pool or server storage) needs the most space. I look in properties of the
server backups and I see what looks like shares (pics, docs, video, etc..) in there. Yet,
what the heck then is the 52 GBs of 'folders' in the storage pool? I assumed 'that' was
shares, although I have moved only 45 GBs of data to shares, mostly music, videos, and
pictures.
If this thing is supposed to cater to the average home consumer, and be a simply to use
and understand backup and storage system (never mind being able or not able to actually
'serve' as in 'stream' anything to client computers, then for me it fails miserably. They
would be better off IMO to cater to the 'enthusiast' and technical users, and then
encourage them to assist the average home user to set up the server with their assistance.
I really can't see the average home user that has several computers and a bunch of
pictures, video (DVDs etc), recorded TV and so on being able to understand how to use this
thing even if they know enough to know that they want to have some kind of home server.
I am really having a hard time understanding the rational the team is using with regard to
developing Vail.
Art [artfudd] Folden
I'm a PC and Windows 7 sucks less!
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*Drives are either A) part of the storage pool (which is used for data storage and client
backups) or B) a backup drive for the server (to take your server data, OS, system state,
etc. off-site). One has absolutely nothing to do with the other (in other words, don't
try to use the same drive for both functions by switching back and forth). Treat each
function as its own and it will be much easier to understand. :)
**So then why does it show client backups in both? And what exactly is "server data" - it
must not be the server OS since you list that separate? How can it be 'much easier' if I
can't tell what is used for what? I see no practical way to know how much hard drive space
to a lot to each. I switched because I thought I must have had it wrong as to what is
backed up/stored on each. It is totally confusing and ambiguous IMO. So the big question
is, how in heck do they think this will all be easily understood by their claimed target
audience?
