I am sorry if this has been answered already but I am not able to find my answer..
I have an old PC running Home Server and PP3. It has 1 (250 gb) and 2 (sata 640gb) drives installed and all are added as storage in the console.
I have 2 desktops and 1 laptop backing up nightly as well as a bunch of shared drives. The share drives are marked for File Duplication.
If I understand everything correctly...
1. The desktops and laptop are completely backed up nightly allowing me to restore them if one were to crash using the Restore disk?
2. The shared drives are redundant on 2 seperate drives. (How do I tell that the shares are on the drives or do I not need to worry about that since the WHS is making sure that I have a copy of the share files on seperate drives already with the duplication
turned on?)
3. With this configuration, all my data should now be backed up at my house correct? (Desktops, Laptop, All Shared folders) and available for a restore?
4. So if I wanted to back up the Home Server OS (for restore), PC's/Laptop, and all the Share files and store it at another location (I am calling this a Server Back up)....how large of a USB hard drive would be needed? (100GB, 500gb, same as the
storage available on the WHS, more)??
5. What would the best method be for backing up all the data on the WHS so I could restore everything or individual files as needed using the Server Back up? I just want to be sure that I have a copy of all data off-site and not loose any data
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Mark