WHS is a 'OK' as a backup server in a very small, windows only environment.
It can only backup 10 machines and can only backup machines that are running
windows XP+. Plus is has a major file corruption bug when under load! that
microsoft has yet to patch since it's discovery oct07.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> --On Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:32 PM +0200 Ludovic Drolez
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I've seen in some commercial backup systems with included
> > deduplication (which often run under Linux :-), that files are split in
> > 128k or 256k chunks prior to deduplication.
>
> Just to name one: Windows Home Server (WHS). I was asking on one of the MS
> newsgroups (Small Business Server) about what they use for backup, and
> many
> were using WHS in small business environments precisely because of the
> high
> degree of compression when backing up multiple workstations. When I went
> to
> look at the WHS features it immediately reminded me of BPC, but with the
> file chunking added.
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference
> Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100.
> Use priority code J8TL2D2.
>
> http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone
> _______________________________________________
> BackupPC-users mailing list
> [email protected]
> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
> Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
> Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference
Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100.
Use priority code J8TL2D2.
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
[email protected]
List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
