servers....

wolfeking

wolfeking

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Okay, so I got an idea, but not a clue how to implement it.

I want to build up a server system, just using some old parts that are cheaply available everywhere, for the specific function of storing my files automatically. Basically I want to set up all the computers here at the house on it so that they automatically store a system image in a folder, then after the initial image is stored, every day, say at 1700 hours the server scans the system for new data and stores it with the image. But how would I go about doing this? I know I will need a system with HDDs bigger than all the systems here, so probably 2 3TB units would do this, but how strong of a system would I need for something like this? And what programs would be needed?
 
in my experience, it'll be a lot easier, in a disaster recovery situation, to simply re-install an OS and recover only the user files.

think about it... say you backup a computer image, and it blows up for whatever reason. how are you going to restore that image? via network, burn a recovery cd?
and what if you image is corrupted because you caught a virus a week ago?

what i do is store user files to one 1TB disk on the server and every few months create a backup of that disk to another 1TB disk using windows backup (server 2008). i also have shadow copy enabled on the file disk in case i need to revert to a previous version of a file; hardly ever use that, but is nice to have and doesn't use a whole lot of space. i keep another disk for media files: music & movies, don't care so much about those.

only takes me a couple hours to get a user up and running again. they can still work while the OS updates.
 
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maybe let me explain. I don't want to store the basic windows files. I want it to keep all my data backed up to it so I don't have to think about it. That way say I go and get a new drive. All I got to do is install windows, install ethernet drivers, and sync the data from the server and I'm back up with all the same data. Seems a bit easier than my current method of having data stored across 10 or more 8+ GB flashkeys and having to sync the data across them.
 
Have you looked at windows home server it has a feature you can install on computers and tell it to automatically back up changes to the server..
 
I have not looked at it before. I have used server 2008r2 before, but I never really got used to it. Whats different between the home server and the regular server?
 
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