Comments on: 10 things I learned about Windows Home Server the hard way (on a Friday night)

By: Timothy Daleo

Timothy Daleo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:36:05 +0000

When you get home try and access the website using your home IP (probably 192.168.1.XXX) and see if it is a port or loop issue.

Tim

By: David Baldwin

David Baldwin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:08:31 +0000

I have just installed WHS on a Compaq ML370, 2 X 733 MHZ processors and 3GB of memory, i love it already!!! have a router that has UPandP but cannot access the website at home, got to work this morning and got straight in!! Will Backup Exec work to back everything to tape?

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:38:03 +0000

Is there anyway to restore my whs backup of home computer to a completely different system? my old pc crashed and burned, I went from an intel system to a AMD system. Any help? Thanks

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:54:04 +0000

I’m curious if any of you guys have tried restoring to a new drive from an HP EX, but to an HP desktop. The reason I ask is that apparently the HP machines require a specific utility called HP DMI to mark the drive for installation.

I have the utility and I have tried the restore of a 456GB image to a 1.5TB new drive without success. The restore says 18m initially then predicts 4hours +. I left it over night and it stated 1hr + remaining. Came back after 8 hours and the machine was seemingly restarted back at the restore boot initial screen.

Any thoughts to a step or something I may be missing would be much appreciated. How long have you guys seen 450GB~ restores on a gigabit network take?

By: Vishal

Vishal — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:15:14 +0000

I would agree. I started out with using an old Pentium PC 512 Meg RAM and it worked great for backups and storing photos and even a blogger, but eventually a few hiccups on streaming media (.VOB files) over Windows media extenders and delay in adding all media prompted me to evaluate all available prebuilt hardware solutions.

So while HP is great, I found it a bit short on future needs of the home server that I saw being well thought in Tranquil BBS2 Advanced server. (for shy of $500) e.g.
Hot SWAP h/d drive bays (not sure if HP has them)
Atom – 64 bit processor – in case Redmond decides 64bit WHS
Low (guilt free) power consumption.
Now that I have reliable hardware, I am using SAGE (for video) and Logitech Squeezebox (for Audio) happily all over the place.

Buy over build has all the advantages

By: Timothy Daleo

Timothy Daleo — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:12:10 +0000

Revision to #8 Above:

You CAN use Restore to change drives as long as you use Disk Manager during the process.

My frustration was from installing a “used” drive the night I wrote that list. When the Restore completed the partition error made itselft evident when I tried to reboot. The drive I installed had multiple partitions and I did not catch it when it went through the Restore process. See my later article for more information.

By: potcherboy

potcherboy — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:54:19 +0000

Fry’s OEM copy of WHS=$99 currently…

By: Irvin

Irvin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:25:15 +0000

Thanks Andrew.

By: Teckset

Teckset — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:08:33 +0000

I ran into a problem tying to upgrade a hard disk on a computer that was factory images with a restore partition. The restore partition was actually drive 0 and the OS partition was drive 1. When I tried to transfer just the OS partition, it wouldn’t boot correctly until I edited the boot configuration file.

By: Andrew Edney

Andrew Edney — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:06:15 +0000

@ Irvin – the WHS software is available in what is known as the system builder channel. Do a search on Google and you will find lots of places that sell it. For example, if you are in the US, Newegg sell it. Andrew.

By: Irvin

Irvin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:10:12 +0000

How can you build your own? I haven’t found a place that would sell just the software.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:01 +0000

In regards to your completely free off-site backup, how are you achieving that? And what is the storage limit?

Thanks.