[AccessD] WHS and backups

Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Thu Dec 27 09:00:09 CST 2007


But you can still tell it to create multiple copies of selected
folders on multple drives though right?  Just not the backup files
themselves?

GK

On 12/26/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> Oh man oh man.  Before anyone rushes out to implement WHS as a backup
> solution you need to know that it has a glaring weakness, the backup stuff
> is not duplicated, nor can you force it to duplicate.  Thus backups will be
> trashed (or may be) if a disk fails.  I have to say I LOVE what WHS is doing
> here but you need to be aware of this issue.
>
> My intention is to soldier on but I will be implementing a raid solution in
> order to prevent disk failures from impacting the solution.  It appears that
> WHS has some pretty cool technologies and it claims to allow access to
> daily, weekly and monthly backups back as far as 10 years.  IF you have a
> raid solution you win, else you lose BIG-TIME if you have a hard disk
> failure.
>
>
> Sigh.
>
>
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
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