I know tons of individuals, home users, famimlies, who like to have a DE based storage solution. According to Paul Thurrotts internal infromations, it's more a development problem than a simple "we don't need it" choice. It seems like the new technology did not work as well as they hoped. Falling back to DE version 1 seems not to be an option sadly. I really hope they change their mind.
They lost a huge fanbase here. The features of DE are great, not having those features drops any usage gain from having a WHS at home.
They seem to be doing the same as WHSv1. Heh, here's a nice comparison between Drive Extender and a Linux solution called Greyhole. An interesting read. It was with v1.? You can have a large? I'm guessing this won't be a problem for me either. This seems to be an odd restriction though. I didn't see it listed in the Server r2 info I read tonight. Thanks to those who've provided links to alternatives to WHS. I haven't had time to look at greyhole. This allows a user to create a storage pool volume which can be easily extended when a new disk is added.
It would be pretty simple to create a WHS add-in that the user could use to do this. The draw back, of course, is data recovery. You can shrink spanned volumes, but removing bad disks from a spanned volume or dealing with a failed disk in a spanned volume becomes a delicate process. Often requiring you to have the entire volume backed up.
WHS DE may have been using those commands. I'm guessing this won't be a problem for me either.? This seems to be an odd restriction though.? Windows Server Backup uses the. The current virtual hard disk specification limits the size of a virtual hard disk to be GB, which can fit a volume of size GB?
If you are creating a full volume backup, the maximum source volume size limit continues to be MB. Do you know if the client backup folder can span disks in any other way than hardware RAID? Software RAID is also an option. The bottom line here is that in order for any Server Folder to span more than 1 physical disk, the spanned disks have to be able to be assigned a single drive letter by the OS.
As long as that is possible, the underlying technology is irrelevant. Seems like a fairly simple way to go. Cheap, effective, and plenty of storage. I suspect much of the angst is over people who have legacy systems, and a bunch of old sub 1TB.
Two options here:. I just tossed a stack of GB maxtors.. Want more protection? Plenty of options here. First, most people DON'T back up their entire server. I am currently using about 14TB total.
I backup the critical files photos, documents , but I certainly don't backup my video library. Thats why I keep the original Blu-ray and dvd disks in the garage Bottom line is, I'm not sure how any of the issues you mention were any better with DE?
There is no option I see that allows you to not select a full volume. So this statment is untrue? The statement is in fact true. If you use the Server Backup Wizard in WHS it is hard coded to back up at the volume level, not at the file and folder level. So what is the thought process here? Thanks for clearing that up Paul. Looks like I may try the SBS essentials, will that allow back-up at the file and folder level? Click start, then type Backup in the Search box to get where you need to be.
I have for a while been testing using two spanned volumes that are mirrored daily using Synctoy. This setup works but I am not convinced yet that its trustworthy. I see a few advantages over using a RAID card - no need for matched drives, compatibility with any hardware that runs Windows. Write performance might not be optimal but in my view for a storage NAS that's acceptable - read speeds will be quite good.
Right now I have 3 x 1. While not simple, at least it's possible with this config to upgrade drive sizes without rebuilding the entire array from backups. I created a new folder on the d: drive called Pool. Then I created 3 subfolders: Drive1, Drive2, Drive3. The problem came when I tried to open the dashboard and move my shares to the new pool I'd created.
The Pool drive is not listed in the dashboard, even though the individual drives that make up the pool are.
I tried to create a New "folder" with the wizard, and I was able to select a subfolder on the Pool through the browse tool, but when I tried to click OK it gave me the following error:. A server folder cannot be added to a hard drive that is not formatted with the NTFS file system. Select a different folder location and try again. Of course I could use it as a DE alternative on another platform like W7 or Server R2, but the whole point of this experiment for me was a way to salvage the new features of WHS If i'm going to live with out them, I might as well just keep using v1 which it looks like i'm going to.
At lest this way I still get to keep client backup and remote access. I'm actually using it right now on my WHS v1 box instead of the built in server backup. Here is what I like:. Another possible substitute for DE is this companies solution that is discussed in the forum thread at Hard Forum at the second link below.
Seems promising if a bit thin on details so far. Worth a look though. Its not for everyone I guess, but I needed a way to do offsite backups and it was better than the others I looked into mozy won't install on a server OS, carbonite is picky about file types, KeepVault was more expensive. Personally, I'm horrible with the whole take the external drive to work every month routine. If it's not automatic, I forget to do it.
I just have way too much disk space used and a limited internet connection. It's hard to fit 9T of stuff down a G a month internet connection, which is being used for other stuff too. Unfortunately I can't do any tests with dynamic disks and spanning using the Disk Management extension until I finish moving. One item I'd like to find out is if you can do spanning across physical disks without striping the data.
If so, is the data legible on the other disks if one disk fails? Spanning appears to allow expansion across dissimilar disks, which would elude to non striping unless the storage not used for spanning becomes another volume. In particular with the ICH10R chipset. Privacy Policy Terms of Service. Jump to Navigation. Search form Search. Filed under:. Rate this article:. Leave this field blank. Need Help? If you need technical assistance , I can help. Click here to email me now ; optionally, you can review my resume here.
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