MS Windows Home Server

KeepVault, the online backup solution for Windows Home Server has been updated to version 2.20:

• Added a per-file “percent complete” status field to view the progress of the current file being protected
• Added archive-bit method to optimize file scanning and CPU access (Note: you must run the referenced utility to convert your existing KeepVault database to use this feature)
• Added “Clear History” option to save valuable hard drive space on your WHS
• Fixed bug: potential upload of files greater than 5GB
• Fixed bug: potential duplicate uploading of files after disable/enable protected WHS Shares or incorrect PC shutdown

This latest version and upgrade instructions for KeepVault Windows Home Server are available from here.

MediaSmart Drive Labeler is a new add-in from Jerry McCollom which updates the drive labels on the HP MediaSmart Server’s as follows:

• Drives are correctly labeled as SATA rather than SCSI.
• The drive bay location is appended to internal SATA drives
• External SATA drives are correctly shown as External rather than Internal.

More info is available from here.

Benjamin Robichaud has updated his add-in that displays the Windows Event Logs, also known as Event Viewer in the Home Server Console. Once installed you can choose which log to monitor, filter the entries with Show All, Warnings, Errors, etc and clear the logs as well.

Version 1.1.0.0 includes the following:

• Fix : only displays the last 500 entries of a Log, thus preventing the console to freeze while iterating over too many items.
• Fix : ‘Show Relevant’ now only displays ‘Warnings’ and ‘Errors’.
• New : ‘Show Unknowns’ is now available under the ‘Filter’ dropdown box.
• New : displays the event ID, per request. 

Event viewer can be downloaded from here.

Thanks to We Got Served for the update details.