By Philip Churchill on May 15th, 2008
Add-In:KeepVault 2.20
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.
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Just how many backups should a typical home user need to make?
Let’s just take a look when using WHS. First, there’s the need of backing up your PC client/s to WHS. That’s going to be painfully slow, using Ethernet as compared to a eSATA solution.
Then there is the additional need to backup your WHS data, as suggested by Microsoft. Until KB 946676 is resolved, the data corruption design flaw isn’t helping here either…
But wait, what sense does it make to trust WHS, for restoring any PC client when in FACT, WHS doesn’t even by default provide a way for WHS customers to backup WHS?
If WHS for any reason what’s so ever fails, like for the same reasons like a PC client should fail, for hardware failures, WHS will NOT be available to restore your PC clients.
Surely, for a backup server, end users will need to insure their backup server can be backed up as well, right?
Why bother to upload 4GiB-9GiB of backup online, using WHS, without insuring WHS can be working as needed later to restore them backup images?