By Matthew Glover on July 13th, 2009
Windows Home Server and Norton Backup Products
Ok then guys just heads up been reading a post here that Symantec backup products such as Ghost seems to cause major headaches because of the services it installs on the server called “Volume Snapshot Service”.
Now all I know is that it stops WHS having the ability to backup up, the post doesn’t mention whether this means the Windows Home Server itself or the local machines, but one thing is certain it does stop one of WHS’s main functions. The other thing to note is that to my knowledge Symantec Backup Exec also has this same service so would advise caution with this also.
If anybody else has issues with this I would like to hear from you.
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This has been confirmed via multiple times by users via Symantec forums. I have been trying for over the last 3 months to get it fixed but Symantec says it is MS problem. I had Symantec tech support PROVE the issue is related to there products (VSS) problem. Check out http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=Norton_360&thread.id=10260&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
Windows Home Server backup performs relatively the same tasks as Symantec Ghost as you can perform a backup restore from the network using a boot cd.
I’ve used many Symantec products and found them to be all rubbish and resource hungrey. Easeus Parition Master is a good alternative to copy entire hdd’s.
Other alternatives can be found here: http://alternativeto.net/desktop/norton-ghost/