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Edward Casati blogs about the Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 (PP1) server backup feature and finds it lacking for what I feel are very valid reasons. I'd add, too, that server backup is really, really slow. I'm unclear why a server-to-USB storage backup would run slower than a manual backup over my home network, but it does. I'll be discussing this on today's podcast:

The recent release of “Power Pack 1″ (PP1) adds some basic functionality in terms of backing up the Server. The feature is very welcome, and will provide simple backup capability to a majority of the target WHS market. As I will discuss later, the PP1 backup is also very limited in scope and versatility, and is a prime candidate for a third-party backup package replacement.

Fortunately there are third party backup packages that work with WHS (actually with Windows Server 2003) and overcome all of the above limitations. One of them is the Server edition of Backup Genie, which I will be discussing in a future blog posting.

Something to look into. But I agree with Edward: server backup is a great and even necessary feature, but it could be way better.

Published Jul 24 2008, 01:52 PM by pthurrott

Filed under: Windows Home Server

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johnbaxter said:

Interesting, in that my Time Capsule's "archive" operation (over USB 2.0) seems to take far too long, and there should be no thought at all: copy those (few) files, don't think about what's in them. And roughly 400 megabytes in roughly 7 hours feels wrong (but I'll be happy to have my back of the envelope (literally) + calculator work proven wrong).

"Few" files since Time Capsule stores the Time Machine backups in image files, and for the Retrospect backup of my Tiger machine there are two files.

July 24, 2008 12:53 PM

Snakedoctor1 said:

WHS is a year old almost? Sorry its to the point now that it still does not feel like its prime time and I think it missed its window of opportunity.

July 24, 2008 1:25 PM

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