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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:12 pm 
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I had a hard drive failure recently and I decided to start again from scratch and maybe max things out this time.

I have 4 2TB drives that I'll be adding internally and my plan was to use them all as storage drives with duplication turned OFF.

I wanted to get a 4TB external USB drive to us as the backup (and eventually a second to cover all 8TB of the internal drives when I get that full)

I plan on letting the MediaSmart server back up selected folders from my home PC nightly and then doing a full server backup to the external drive(s) once a week.

Is this a viable solution? Will I actually be able to make this work (before I spend the money on a 4TB external drive) or am I missing something critical here?

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Sounds good.
But you know that the server does not support above 2tb
So you would need to format it with you pc first.
Then add it as a backup drive without formatting.

Just remember that a backup drive does not have the option to do auto backups. Nor will it do cleanups.
So you will need to delete some of them on occasion.

Also the first backup will take a extremely long time.
Subsequent backups will be shorter in time.
Also the backups do not backup the client backup data base.

You would need the Whs Backup database utility add-in

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Yeah, I learned the hard way about nothing over 2TB, but from what I could tell, that was only for internal drives.

I had a 4TB SATA drive that I was trying to put in there until I figured out the limit. Before returning it the other day, I stuck it in an external USB docking station and plugged it in to the back just to see what would happen. The server recognized the full 4TB (or 3.6 whatever) and asked how I wanted to add it which made me think of this as an option for the server backups.

So I'm familiar with doing manual backups, how long they take and cleaning them up on occasion but I'm not sure what you mean about "the client backup database" .... unless... do you mean the backups of the home PC that get created on the server?

So when I do a typical Manual Backup of folders and all it won't get that stuff as well? Depending on the ease of getting the WHS backup database utility add-in set up, I may just skip that and live with it. Barring anything catastrophic like losing both the PC and Media Server at the same time, it should be okay.


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Correct.
The client backups are not part of the backup routine.
It by default only will backup the shares folders
But if you install the WHSD BDBB addin you can opt to save a client backup where you desire

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Excellent! Thanks for the help.


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