Keen photographer Sean Daniel has been using KeepVault as an online backup for his Windows Home Server 2011. Sean takes us through the setup process and also takes a look at the add-ins local backup feature and how the recovery of files is accomplished by an easy one click restore. It’s a great comprehensive read […]
This weeks edition of “The Home Server Show” podcast has an announcement of a brand new add-in for WHS v1 plus the weeks news and good conversation. Episode 127 can be found here.
The developers behind Drive Bender have stated that the 2nd beta release of their DE replacement will be available on the 21st of this month – We can’t wait! “The intention here is to release a solid and near feature complete beta version.” The Drive Bender website.
With the new KeepVault v4 software available in early April, the guys have published a chart snippet which shows the features which will be new to the software: More details on what will be included in this new release is available to view here.
Remote Alert is an add-in that allows you to monitor remote access attempts to your Windows Home Server, with real-time reporting using the WHS Health task tray icon. Version 1.5 is due to be released this week and the developer is after a few testers who have multiple network adapters in their Windows Home Server […]
Western Digital will acquire Hitachi Storage in a acquisition valued at $4.3 billion. "This brings together two industry leaders with consistent track records of strong execution and industry outperformance," said Steve Milligan, president and chief executive officer, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. "Together we can provide customers worldwide with the industry’s most compelling and diverse set […]
If you would like to know how backups are handled in WHS2011 then "Geoff Coupe’s Blog" has a great run down on how it works in Windows Home Server’s latest version. It’s a great read which you can find here.
More add-in news in this weeks episode of "The Home Server Show" podcast. Plus Home Server news and views in episode 126 which you can get from here.
The Microsoft Download Center has a great list of training videos on Windows Small Business Server 2011. These Learning Bites are worth a watch as the interface in the SBS 2011 Essentials Learning Bites is very similar to WHS2011 and lots can be learned from them. You can find them here.
ghacks.net have a great write-up on Drive Bender which takes you through the configuration process from the Drive Bender pool manager to creating a mount point. You can read it here.
