You should visit the website for your external storage drive manufacturer to ensure that your backup drive is supported on computers running Windows Server Essentials.
Because the wizard schedules differential-based backups, Backup runs quickly, and server performance is not significantly impacted. However, you can adjust the backup schedule according to the needs of your organization. You should occasionally evaluate the effectiveness of your backup plan, and change the plan as necessary.
In the default installation of Windows Server Essentials, the server is configured to automatically perform a defragmentation once each week. This can result in larger than normal backups if you use non-Microsoft imaging software. If it is not necessary to defragment the server on a regular basis, you can follow these steps to turn off the defragmentation schedule:. By default, all operating system files and folders are selected for backup.
You can choose to back up all the hard disks, files, and folders on the server, or select only individual hard disks, files, or folders to backup. To add or remove items for the backup, do one of the following:. If you want to exclude the Operating System item from the backup, you must first clear the System Backup recommended check box. To minimize the amount of backup hard disk space that your server backups use, you may want to exclude any folders that contain files that you don't consider valuable or particularly important.
For example, you may have a folder that contains recorded television programs that uses a lot of hard drive space.
You may choose not to back up these files because you normally delete them after viewing them anyway. Alternatively, you may have a folder that contains temporary files that you do not intend to keep. When an unformatted internal hard disk drive is detected on the Windows Server Essentials server, a health alert is raised that contains a link to the Add a New Hard Drive Wizard.
When the wizard is finished, one or more, depending on the size of the drive, logical hard drives formatted will be created on the hard drive and formatted as NTFS. Right-click the drive that you want to repartition, click Delete Volume , and then click Yes. Right-click the Unallocated hard disk drive, and then click New Simple Volume. Click the name of the server, and then click Restore files or folders for the server in the Tasks pane. The Restore Files or Folders Wizard opens. Follow the instructions in the wizard to restore the files or folders.
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The nature of backup is that it frequently makes small changes to large files, meaning that the migrator may end up doing far more work than the backup process does. That makes sense. If I'm running nightly backups of four machines I could easily see the migrator the service that makes duplicates running all night long on my machine. But, I'm also paranoid about losing data so I think this key is for me. It may not be for you, but it's nice to know it's there. Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee.
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January 14, Sounds great! You mention that it took 20 minutes to restore onto the new drive. How large was the backup you were using?
You said gigs for the 4 computers do you know how large the one you backed up from was? Also I am just wondering since you mention it is a laptop that it might have just been because of a small drive or perhaps the configuration you have there which facilitated this pretty reasonable speed.
Wondering how long it might take to perform a backup with a large drive. Brendan Enrick. This whole area of WHS needs work, in my opinion. I am close to reaching 2Tb in the videos folder and was wondering if you can share your solution to WHS constraints. The obvious solution that I can think of is to split my videos folder but I am not completely aware of the issues that I will run in to when I split.
Would greatly appreciate any information that you can share in this regard. You might be able to split your Video folder into Video1 and Video2 folders, and use two separate 2TB drives to back them up, one assigned per folder.
Try it and see. Just make sure that you add a new drive to the pool to increase your pool space. WHS will start filling up that drive. You do not need to create a new shared folder. Do not expect the files to balance across the new drive. Why is it when i keep adding volumes to the backup, it does not seem to use them. I want to tell the backup program, backup everything on 1TB disk 1 to 1TB backup disk.
I have other folders from various shares i deem important going to a external 1. Why cannot tell the backup app to backup 1 volume to another volume. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email.
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content. However, the backup task still continues to run on a daily basis… In fact, even the act of removing external discs seems less clear in WHS Like this: Like Loading I came here on a three year assignment, but fell in love with the country, and one Dutchman in particular, and so have stayed here ever since.
On the 13th December I also became a Dutch citizen. Bookmark the permalink. March 1, at am. Geoff Coupe says:. JL says:. Someone put their finger on it in the WeGotServed forum : I think the biggest determinant here is not profit, but executive support. Is there a good alternative to WHS?
March 1, at pm. March 2, at am. March 2, at pm. John Zajdler says:. March 7, at pm. DoctorX says:. April 27, at pm. Timothy Daleo says:. April 28, at am. Dave says:. March 10, at am. Someone made the suggestion: Typically I will backup my server once a month, and remove the drive and put it in a safe place. To which Microsoft replied: we didnt consider this. May 17, at pm. Andy, CloudBerry Lab says:.
March 14, at pm. James Daniel says:. April 6, at am. April 7, at am. There are options to backup to a schedule or to backup when you click the button. Looks as though it could meet your spec. April 7, at pm. Michael Patrick says:. April 4, at pm. April 5, at am. April 5, at pm. John Hughes says:. June 29, at pm. Is the total space allowed for all client computers also 2TB? John, The 2TB limit applies only to the backup of the server itself — not to the size of the client computer backups.
Yep, good point, John — I forgot about that limiting factor…. July 1, at am. August 18, at pm. Stan Groves says:. November 17, at pm. November 22, at pm. I did indeed format it on normal Win7 PC first.
Daniel says:. August 17, at pm. Arun says:. October 15, at pm. Geoff, I am close to reaching 2Tb in the videos folder and was wondering if you can share your solution to WHS constraints. October 16, at am.
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