Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 09:31:22 CST 2007
Hello John Colby and all my old Friends from AccessD Happy new year to you all from chilly Ireland I have been reading with much interest your posts on WHS. It is a fascinating product that MS have produced. John, Do I understand it right that you have purchased the hardware and are running it now already at home? I understand that it is not supplied as a software only solution, but does that mean that you had to buy hardware as well as the software, I would love to just buy the software and use my existing hardware. I am presuming that it will work in an environment where Win2K3 is installed? is that an OK presumption? I understand that it is only for home use now, but do you think that they will eventually bring it to the corporate environment ? Is it a hassle to install ? I bought the 120 Day eval last night for approx 10 USD from MS so I guess I will receive the CD in a few weeks. I also guess that I can install that eval version on my own hardware Finally, In line with another post about a man that provides online backup services, Does any one else think that providing this as a service to local companies is a viable commercial venture ? I currently backup a clients network to an offsite location, using a program named DeltaSync which is based on RSync from the Linux Environment and it works a treat, my only complaint is that it does not allow me to step back 1,2,3,4 days, and 1,2,3,4 weeks and then 1-12 months, I only ever have one or two snapshots of all data offsite. Since I read you post, I have been trying not to get sucked into this discussion, but it is too interesting to avoid :) Thanks, Mark