Exclusive: Windows Home Server Tool Kit Updates
For those of you that don’t know, the Windows Home Server Tool Kit is a collection of utilities that can help you diagnose Windows Home Server product installation and operation related issues within your home network, it is not just an add-in.
Today we can tell you about what is planed for newer releases of the Tool Kit. Future functionality will include more server-side diagnostics and server-side repair and protection tools including the facility to repair the data base as well as the only current option of deleting it. Also in the works is a Toolkit User Manual to help us through the mine field of options available.
The Windows Home Server team are also working on a solution to backup the server itself. The solution will allow you to create an external copy of the server backup which you will be able to store on a separate hard drive that isn’t managed by Windows Home Server itself and is not a part of the “pool” of drives. By creating this copy of the server backup you would be able to restore WHS and the backup database, some thing that is not available at present. Microsoft have said that they are planning for this to be made available to their customers soon.
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Are there some news regarding system backup features of WHS ?
It’s been over a year since the post. When will the server backup be available. The toolkit has a server backup feature, but it doesn’t backup the server OS disk, which floors me, since that is what I thought had been promised. It just give the ability to backup the shares to another location. OK, that’s nice, but what about the server OS disk, which is the big whole we are looking to fill?
Nothing yet on this front? I lost my main system disk and it was a major pain to get it back up and running. luckily, since everything gets migrated off the D: drive when I had lots of additional disks on my system, I didn’t lose hardly anything except the OS. I had to end up manually copying from the folders\{1618D36B-F4E7-4360-B070-A32070519DC9} to the Share since server recovery didn’t leave me with anything in my d:\shares.