Do the issues with WHS ever stop????? Looks like there will be NO backup feature implemented into PP1!

A post from Microsoft today over on the Windows Home Server forums confirmed that a key feature of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1, scheduled to be released in the first half of 2008, has now been cut from the pack.

Users have been eagerly awaiting new Home Server Backup capabilities in the forthcoming update, which as previously featured here at WGS, include the ability to perform a full backup of your home server, including your shared folders and your backup database.

Unfortunately, due to interplay issues with the Windows Home Server Connector install, and to prevent the risk of users encountering a corrupted backup database, the ability to create a backup of your backup database has now been removed from the latest builds. The good news is that shared folder backup is unaffected.

Windows Home Server Product Planner, Todd Headrick, admitted “A feature isn’t a feature until it ships. And sometimes marketing gets things wrong … by pre-announcing stuff at CES that ends up getting cut before it ships.” The plan is to look at re-introducing this feature in a future release of Windows Home Server.

Whilst the news is disappointing (I’ve been aware of this for some time, but as you know, I’m under a Microsoft NDA), if there’s a risk of backup databases being corrupted, the right decision is to pull the feature now before release.

You can follow the discussion over at the Windows Home Server forums.

http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3314956&SiteID=50
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... Backup.pdf
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Sounds like a good decision!

I would love to have the abilities it would give us, but I would not like to have bugs.

So let them work out all the bugs for a future release and get us the update ASAP.

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Actually, what was described in the link in the whitepaper article is exactly what I have been doing . . . .

Manually copying the database to a drive added but NOT in the pool or to an external drive.

The backup database is in 1 directory, and easy to copy.....

Your title says "BACKUP FEATURE SCRAPPED IN PP1."

But it's really the Backup of the Backups that are scrapped. We should still be able to make a Backup of the Server's OS, right ?

Corrrect. (The title here could be better!)

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Blame someone at the Microsoft WHS forums.

I copied the information DIRECTLY from there, and that's how it was titled....

Get over it.

Keeping the peace, changed the title.

And my apologies if I was adding to the "flames". I should have pointed out that it was a consistent title. My purpose was to clarify that it was the backup-backup, not to criticize.

(And thank-you, Alex, for the change in the title!)

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Alex????

I for one am really bummed to hear this.

Thanks, Cougar, for correcting the title. I've been watching the forums via RSS at work, but unable to visit much due to moving and not having internet yet at the new house, so was confused with the original thread title.

Why not use the backup features that are already built into the server OS? That's what I'm doing. I have two backup jobs, each job is a backup of my shared folders. These backup jobs run one after the other, storing one backup on my Compaq desktop PC, and the other on my ASUS desktop PC.

I figured having the same data strung across the server and two PC's was a good way to go. They can't all die on me at the same time. No need to buy more HDD's, I think it makes sense to use the ones I already own.

Joe Michel

You know, the "Alex" named "Cougar"????

Mea Culpa -- Sorry, AND A BIG THANKS, Cougar!

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