Using WHS for Longer Term Archiving

Developer Brendan Grant has written an article highlighting that some users are using Windows Home Server for longer term archiving. e.g.to safeguard the last state of a PC before it is scrapped.

Brendan states while this is an option, there are a few areas that should be considered before relying on Windows Home Server for long term archiving, one of those being that WHS can only backup up to 10 PCs, which includes those PCs which are no longer actively being backed up.

One solution is to use Virtual PC 2007 to create a new virtual machine and virtual hard disk and store your archives their instead. If that is the route you would like to take then Microsoft’s Brendan will take you step by step through the details.

Read it here.

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