Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Wed Dec 19 05:16:31 CST 2007
Hi John Yes, my colleague runs one at home and is happy with it. It's a pure OEM thing aimed at the home market but can, of course, fit some small office set ups as well. Beyond that (5 to 10 users) you start to miss the features of the 2003 Small Business server. But the price is right, about that for a standard WinXP Home OEM. The intention of MS is to sell it to system builders only, to bring some kind of advanced NAS units to the market. Contrary to most NAS units, the Home Server features user login and user rights. Official site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx /gustav >>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 19-12-2007 03:55 >>> Hey, is anyone out there using this? I just stumbled across it and it looks WOW. Automatic backup of all Windows XP and later machines. AUTOMATIC. Automatic raid 1 if there are more than 1 disks. Add a disk and it is just absorbed into the borg for storage. I am soooo going to do this. It will back up my Windows 2K3 servers (OS and files), my laptop, my wife / son's laptops, email etc. The forums claim that it only stores a file once EVEN IF IT IS ON MULTIPLE COMPUTERS. thus music and photos will back up only once even if they are duplicated on my laptop and my wife's laptop. Photos dumped onto any laptop from the camera gets automatically backed up that night to the WHS. I am in SUCH deep doodoo over some kid pictures that somehow went missing. No more deep dodoo. It just sounds awesome. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2236186,00.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Home_Server John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com