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Does anyone have any recommendations for verifying the integrity of the WHS 2011 backups? Either the client machine backups, and/or the server backups.
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| # ? May 13, 2013 08:56 |
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| # ? May 22, 2013 00:07 |
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The_Frag_Man posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for verifying the integrity of the WHS 2011 backups? You can see if a backup is successful or not in the dashboard, is that what you mean? Otherwise I don't know of a way to tell, sorry. To add a request for myself, can anyone recommend a z10 automation solution for my WHS 2011 box? I would like to control my thermostat and probably some other devices when I get it up and running.
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| # ? May 13, 2013 17:46 |
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kri kri posted:You can see if a backup is successful or not in the dashboard, is that what you mean? Otherwise I don't know of a way to tell, sorry. The completely inappropriately named "tell me how to install my own alarm system" thread is chock full of information about this stuff.
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| # ? May 13, 2013 17:54 |
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kri kri posted:You can see if a backup is successful or not in the dashboard, is that what you mean? Otherwise I don't know of a way to tell, sorry. Nope, I mean to verify the integrity of a backup after it has completed successfully. Just wondering if there's a command line option to the backup tool to do a integrity check, or something like that. The_Frag_Man fucked around with this message at May 13, 2013 around 19:38 |
| # ? May 13, 2013 19:36 |
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EC posted:The completely inappropriately named "tell me how to install my own alarm system" thread is chock full of information about this stuff. I appreciate it, I forgot that subforum existed. If anyone is on the fence, WHS 2011 has been continuously great for me, no issues to speak of. $50 OS in a N40L is pretty nice.
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| # ? May 13, 2013 23:03 |
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kri kri posted:If anyone is on the fence, WHS 2011 has been continuously great for me, no issues to speak of. $50 OS in a N40L is pretty nice. Me too, especially with DrivePool installed. Just broke 12tb the other day, and I have room for 3 more drives. Hopefully ~20tb will be enough.
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| # ? May 14, 2013 13:34 |
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EC posted:Me too, especially with DrivePool installed. Just broke 12tb the other day, and I have room for 3 more drives. Hopefully ~20tb will be enough. I did DrivePool a few days ago and am really very impressed with it. Recommended. I use it on Win 8 pro.
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| # ? May 14, 2013 16:25 |
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I recall the only flaw I encountered with Drivepool was a while back when it would "lose" all of the shares in the pool. They were still on the drives but you had to manually re-add them after each reboot. That bug's been long gone and it seems to be incredibly stable and full of features now. No issues with Drivepool and WHS 2011. I do wish they would issue another update roll-up though and fix that GPT problem.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 00:56 |
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PUBLIC TOILET posted:I recall the only flaw I encountered with Drivepool was a while back when it would "lose" all of the shares in the pool. They were still on the drives but you had to manually re-add them after each reboot. That bug's been long gone and it seems to be incredibly stable and full of features now. No issues with Drivepool and WHS 2011. I do wish they would issue another update roll-up though and fix that GPT problem. GPT problem?
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| # ? May 15, 2013 05:43 |
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Tivac posted:GPT problem? I assume we're speaking to the fact that WHS2011 can't backup data off of disks that have GPT partitions, or those computers with UEFI enabled boot volumes. WS2012 Essentials fixed both of these issues
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| # ? May 15, 2013 14:38 |
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Nebulis01 posted:I assume we're speaking to the fact that WHS2011 can't backup data off of disks that have GPT partitions, or those computers with UEFI enabled boot volumes. WS2012 Essentials fixed both of these issues Correct. There's speculation that the next update roll-up patch for WHS 2011 will fix the issue, but that's not really confirmed.
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| # ? May 16, 2013 03:47 |
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PUBLIC TOILET posted:Correct. There's speculation that the next update roll-up patch for WHS 2011 will fix the issue, but that's not really confirmed. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2781272 seems to get partway there. Is WS2012 Essentials user friendly enough that a WHS v1 refugee could figure things out?
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| # ? May 16, 2013 05:30 |
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Tivac posted:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2781272 seems to get partway there. Is WS2012 Essentials user friendly enough that a WHS v1 refugee could figure things out? If all you wanted to do was media serving and backups? Yes it's dead simple. The cost is a bit steeper (around $500 i think, it's $100 if you know someone who works for MS)
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| # ? May 16, 2013 16:07 |
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Tivac posted:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2781272 seems to get partway there. Is WS2012 Essentials user friendly enough that a WHS v1 refugee could figure things out?  Well then. I had no idea there was a hotfix out for that issue. I suppose now there's really no reason not to use WHS 2011 (at least in my opinion.)
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| # ? May 17, 2013 00:26 |
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PUBLIC TOILET posted:
Yup same here, glad to see it got released.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 02:30 |
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I'm migrating from WHSv1 to WHS 2011, and I got 2011 running on a separate drive as my system drive, but when I chuck in my old drives, nothing shows up on them. Same goes for putting my drives in my normal PC(to copy files off of it); is there something (maybe super obvious even) I'm missing? I'm able to copy files over the network by using my old system drive to boot, but this is kinda annoying/dumb...
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| # ? May 17, 2013 08:26 |
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you need to enable viewing hidden files, its a hidden directory with all the shares within it
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| # ? May 17, 2013 19:04 |
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Well, I shouldn't have bragged about how great my server was working, because now it won't boot.  Last week DrivePool told me I had a drive missing, so I popped open the case to check it out. I didn't see anything weird, but I reset the cables for all the drives, and then added a new drive that I had been waiting to put in anyway. On reboot, everything worked normally. Today the same drive went missing, so I decided to just reboot, hoping that it would re-appear and work until tomorrow morning, as the wife was wanting to hang out and watch movies tonight. Now the server won't boot at all. If I boot normally, it hangs while on the screen with the moving bar at the bottom. The second time I tried Startup Manager or whatever, and it hung at some blue Windows background picture. I'm starting actual safe mode right now, but I'm not sure what I should look for. Any tips?
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| # ? May 17, 2013 23:00 |
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Is there a way to remove the drives that are offline/no longer on a client computer from the backup selection window in client computer backups? Running WHS2011 and i seem to lack the ability to have the server re detect the drives attached to the client. I've uninstalled the connector software and removed all client data, i reinstall the connector and the old drives show up as (offline)
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| # ? May 17, 2013 23:19 |
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Tivac posted:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2781272 seems to get partway there. Is WS2012 Essentials user friendly enough that a WHS v1 refugee could figure things out? I replaced my WHS v1 with server 2012 essentials. It's nearly as simple as WHS, and it's been a lot more reliable. I don't know if I'd pay $500 for it (I was given a free license from an acquaintance), but it's nice.
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| # ? May 18, 2013 15:42 |
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I'll be honest. I've been running WHS2011 and from having to reinstall the connector a bunch of times and other little problems, I feel like there's nothing WHS does that you couldn't accomplish with a machine running Windows 7 or 8. The exception being drive pooling.
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| # ? May 20, 2013 12:58 |
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I think the draw is mainly having specific services already baked in rather than having to go find specific applications to do them individually, including stuff on the client end like how backups are done and such.
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| # ? May 20, 2013 13:55 |
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| # ? May 22, 2013 00:07 |
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Coredump posted:I'll be honest. I've been running WHS2011 and from having to reinstall the connector a bunch of times and other little problems, I feel like there's nothing WHS does that you couldn't accomplish with a machine running Windows 7 or 8. The exception being drive pooling. Backups are the biggest reason. WHS does great backup.
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