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#Windows home server 2011 backup strategy how to
Learn how to “Copy and Paste” from the “cmd.exe” or Command Prompt. (I did not explicitly “align” the drive to a 4kB sector drive because the Hitachi alignment tool does not see it as an “Advanced Format” disk – you will find mention of this on certain drives.) I installed Chrome or on WHS to make downloading stuff easier a while ago.Notepad.exe (not extra, just to keep track of things).Here are the additional things I needed / used: A better, more visual version is reference in his tutorial and would help. And the final 2 steps (11 and 12) are critically important and possibly the hardest to follow. It’s formatted bizarrely at the very end – there are 2 sets of steps 11 and 12. Here’s the basic tutorial I used at its original location (from what I can tell): And since it behaved slightly differently than the tutorial, I believe that more people may start running into this particular roadblock due to the price being so attractive. Because there are other places to get this information, the only reason I am writing this is to clarify the most prevalent tutorial.Īlso, I bought a Hitachi 3TB CoolSpin drive at ~$150 (model: HDS5C3030ALA630). I elected to do it, but your mileage may vary (YMMV).
#Windows home server 2011 backup strategy 64 Bit
(Why? Because they’re nice boxes and 64 bit – so if I decide to jump on WHS 2011, I can do it manually.) But, I wanted to add a big big drive, and WHS v1 doesn’t like anything above 2TB.įirst off, there are a few tutorials and threads about doing and not doing this. So, I bought an HP MediaSmart Home Server just after they decided to pull the plug on them. But I wrote about why I don’t like that already. In Windows Home Server 2011, they removed Drive Extender. That means in case of failure, my files are fairly safe, and Drive Extender removed most of the concerns about sizing drives properly when you do a “hardware RAID” type solution on regular hardware storage options. From there, my files would get distributed and duplicated across the new drive. So Windows Home Server 2011 is out, but it is missing a major component that I really liked about WHS (and what made WHS unique) – Drive Extender.īasically, in WHS v1, you could add a drive to your machine, and WHS would add it automatically to its “storage pool”.