Just a quick note. Jere and I got a great email about our last show covering Windows Home Server and HTPCs. We just couldn’t bare to wait until August to talk about it. I’ll let you listen for all of the details but suffice to say, there seems to be enough interest that we’re going to have to do another WHS show soon. Hope you enjoy!
Click here to download Ep. 05 SP1
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I'll tell you right now, Carbonite is good, but can not be trusted. I have 20MB upload fios connection, and it took me over 2 months to complete my first initial backup. After the first 2 GB, Carbonite throttles your connection, and you'll be lucky to upload 1 GB a day. On top of that if your like me and mix in home videos with your pictures, you have to go into each picture folder individually and manually add all the videos to be saved.
I mainly use it to back up photos and my music collection which was is about 90 gigs. I cant complain cause i do have 90Gigs backed up for 50 bucks a year which is great, but it is not polished and their help and support is not good either (its all email based). I still have problems with it not allowing random files to backup at all on my pc, and there was no indication that it had trouble unless i traverse the whole file system to find files that aren't selected. They claim its a problem with my pc, but i believe it didn't like some of the id3 tags in my mp3s. (I spent years ripping my collection to my pc and I dont want to do it again, so dont say I am greedy in backing up music)
instead of hurting the environment and throwing away perfectly good, used hard drives, you guys could use DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) http://www.dban.org/
DBAN will write 1's and 0's accross the entire hard drive, multiple times, to completely wipe your drive clean to the point that your old data will never be recoverable.
Also wanted to add the bit about WHS and your storage pool. One thing about the current version of WHS and your storage pool of drives. You can rebuild your WHS box, and still retain the data on your pool drives without loosing any data.
Also the method for moving your data (say if you were going to Vail next) you can take each individual drive from your storage pool, bring it into your new WHS box running Vail, and install the drives, however NOT mount them yet, RDP into your WHS box, on the desktop, and transfer the files from the drive into the new pool before you add the drive to the pool.
you can take a drive from the existing version of WHS and mount it into a windows 7 pc and browse the files, one thing you can't do with Vail (from what I've read) is you can't use windows explorer to view the files on a Vail formatted storage pool drive.
Hope that makes sense.
– Josh