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  • Is there a way to have a server backup all the documents on all the computers connected to the network whether files are shared or not.
    Sunday, October 17, 2010 7:11 PM

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  • Windows Home Server does this for up to 10 connected computers - and includes the operating system and application files. so that you can perform a bare metal restore. And this kind of backup is better than the most other methods, which require you to know, where documents are stored, which files are documents and are considered important and does not overload the backup capacity after a few days. (I.e. Outlook PST files are also documents in this sense, and having multiple copies from them can be disk eating.) Also more manual backups, based on scripts pointing to certain file types or folders, may fail due to the files being open all the time.

    You can train (often) your users to use shared folders on a server to store all documents, but you can't do so with applications in some cases.

    Best greetings from Germany
    Olaf

    Sunday, October 17, 2010 8:54 PM
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  • Is there a way to have a server backup all the documents on all the computers connected to the network whether files are shared or not.

    Not sure what you mean exactly.

    WHS backup entire harddrives, exceptions can be made by you when you setup each individual computer.
    You can exclude certain folders or drives if you like.

    If a folder on a client pc is shared or not doesn't matter - it will be backed up unless you tell WHS not to back it up.


    One WHS v1 machine in the basement with a mixed setup of harddrives in and outside the storage pool. And now, next to it, a Vail Refresh brother for beta duties.
    Sunday, October 17, 2010 8:57 PM