Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 09:33:32 CST 2007
Sorry for the mispost, I intended that last email to go to dba-tech. Apologies, Mark On 29/12/2007, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > >