Backup

This is part 2 of a multi-part review of the Drive Bender software for Windows Home Server 2011. Part 1 is available here. In this section, we’ll cover the Drive Bender terminology and how to install Drive Bender.  If you’re thinking about installing Drive Bender,  there are some important points I’ll discuss about the product […]

I recently wrote a review about CloudBerry Backup 2.2 for Windows Home Server v1 and thought it might be helpful to give you a quick guide to get setup and running quickly. I leveraged both the CloudBerry Labs site as well as my own learnings to provide the following. Here’s what you’ll be doing: Sign […]

When I first decided to write about the CloudBerry Online Backup add-in for Windows Home Server v1, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. As I suspect many novice to intermediate readers might think, backing up to the cloud may be outside your general understanding, price point or perceived value for the hassle. Well, I […]

Sans Digital enclosures have long been a favorite of many a WHS user when they run out of drive bays in their MSS or other server.  Sans Digital have just announced the release of four new 8 bay models now with a USB 3.0 port which, on paper, should give you 5Gpbs of throughput compared […]

I’m pleased to announce the release of a new version of the Windows Home Server Backup Database-Backup (BDBB) Add-In. Version 1.0.3.3 includes a couple of new features that I believe you will find useful, as well as an updated user interface to accommodate the new features. Here’s a list of what’s changed in this release. […]

CloudBerry Lab has released v1.6 update for their CloudBerry S3 Backup for Windows Home Server software. This is what CloudBerry Labs indicates as what is new to the 1.6 release: Backup of Network Shares Smart Delete – an option to keep locally deleted files on backup storage Server Edition – designed to run on Windows […]

Prices on large capacity hard drives have been dropping steadily and you can now get a 2 terabyte drive to expand your storage for under $100 (and I’m sure that will be dropping even lower before we know it), and at the same time we’re needing to store more and more content in the form […]

CloudBerry Lab has released an update to the popular S3 backup Add-In, CloudBerry Online Backup. Now at version 1.5, the application introduces some additional features to make backing up your data to the cloud as simple as possible. The new release introduces a Simple Mode that enables users to create an exact copy of their […]

Last week Google announced the availability of a Preview of Google Storage for Developers. This is a cloud service similar to the Amazon S3 service, and allows fast, reliable access to your data stored across multiple data centers. There have been several Windows Home Server Add-Ins built around the Amazon S3 service, such as Cloudberry […]

HP is announcing the addition of the KeepVault Online Backup services to their list of recommended applications for use with the MediaSmart Server. This is not an Add-In developed by HP, but rather appears to be a partnership with KeepVault that offers a discount to owners of the HP MediaSmart Server. I’ve got an open […]