2011 (~$200, no upgrade pricing, process is manual) Nice! And even when I did have to add storage, Home Server's Drive extender made it easy. It also meant I could feel free to put bloated games on a family systems, without worrying that it might require me to add any more storage to the Home Server. Meaning, if I had 7 copies of Windows XP on 7 PCs, the storage need wasn't 7x greater than 1 XP PC, it was instead about 1.1X.
Those backups were single instance storage. Not a good candidate for cloud backup, nor was my internet anywhere near as fast as it is now. Oh yeah, it also served as a 2nd copy of all those irreplaceable family videos, about 3TB of data in all. Instead of troubleshooting inevitable PC woes, I just reverted to the last known good backup.
This product saved my skin dozens of times, giving me my evenings and weekends back. We all helped each other through the new site, and the always informative and entertaining HomeServerShow Podcast community.
A fairly simple wizard walked me through the process of restoring from the last full backup, right over the home network. I'd simply swap in another drive, then pop in that recovery CD. Created a bootable CD for those inevitable bad days, when a family member's hard drive or PC would croak, usually spectacularly. I've relied on Windows Home Server since its release in November of 2007. I took a small PC, stuffed 4 1TB drives in there, and I had myself a little 24x7 home backup server. MY HOME SERVER TIMELINE 2007 (~$100, for the OEM license key) Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? As a long-time MSDN member, I had the opportunity to try Microsoft's various products before buying, for these past 8 years. Here's how it went. As Veeam acknowledged during their Endpoint webinar yesterday, it's typically an IT Pro or just a Computer Enthusiast of some sort that is eager to find a set-and-forget-it solution, so they don't have to spend every family holiday and weekend fixing stuff. What better way to look at that market than by first taking a look at what this IT Pro been doing for daily backups, for my extended family and 12 PCs, for about 8 years now. I haven't had a chance to test it yet, but Andreas Lesslhumer sure has! click the image to sign-up, all they ask for is your email addressīefore we get too into discussing Veeam's planned 2015 launch, or their interesting beta tester motivational strategy (pictured above and at right), let's first gain a better understanding of how tough the "IT Pro who helps out family and friends at home" market really is. I listened in to a portion of their Webinar today, and wanted to share some initial impressions, based on what I heard so far.
Sounds intriguing, especially for a v1 release.
and they're giving Surface Pro 3 to 6 lucky beta testers. Posted by Paul Braren on (updated on Dec 28 2014) in