Archiving a Client PC Backup from the WHS Backup

If you are migrating to a new Windows Home Server, then MVP Olaf Engelke has written a great guide for you.

"How to archive a Client PC Backup from Windows Home Server Backup" takes you step by step through the process of archiving single volumes from a PCs backup using Microsoft imaging technologies normally used for corporate deployments.

Since Windows Home Server does not support archiving, you would either have to save the entire backup database or keep the unused computer forever in the console, but Olaf’s solution is
ideal if:

1. You want to clean up the console from computers which are no longer used, but you do not want to lose the last backup done from that machine.
2. You want to preserve an important backup without the risk of losing it in case of a corrupted backup database in the future.

Olaf’s comprehensive guide (which requires some basic technical understanding of drive imaging) is available here.

Share this WHS Article with Others: