Comments on: Windows Home Server Beta 2 Signup http://www.benstoneonline.com/blog/2007/02/13/windows-home-server-beta-2-signup/ The Only B.S. You Need To Listen To. Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:09:20 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ben http://www.benstoneonline.com/blog/2007/02/13/windows-home-server-beta-2-signup/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Ben Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:43:27 +0000 http://www.benstoneonline.com/blog/2007/02/13/windows-home-server-beta-2-signup/#comment-170 Mmm, headless Linux is good .. but as I'm more of a Windows-oriented guy (though I'm trying to change that, look at my more recent posts..) I like the idea that there's a Microsoft server offering targeted at me and what I want to do. Sure you can do nice backups with rsync, but it's not really as simple to do when you've got Windows machines. Plus with rsync, it goes by a file-level, whereas the WHS goes by each disk cluster. It also prevents duplicate clusters over multiple machines from being written to disk, so you can back up 4 PCs with 500GB of data using just 200GB of space easily. And, I fixed the it's thing. :P Mmm, headless Linux is good .. but as I’m more of a Windows-oriented guy (though I’m trying to change that, look at my more recent posts..) I like the idea that there’s a Microsoft server offering targeted at me and what I want to do.

Sure you can do nice backups with rsync, but it’s not really as simple to do when you’ve got Windows machines. Plus with rsync, it goes by a file-level, whereas the WHS goes by each disk cluster. It also prevents duplicate clusters over multiple machines from being written to disk, so you can back up 4 PCs with 500GB of data using just 200GB of space easily.

And, I fixed the it’s thing. :P

]]> By: Daniel15 http://www.benstoneonline.com/blog/2007/02/13/windows-home-server-beta-2-signup/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Daniel15 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:46:10 +0000 http://www.benstoneonline.com/blog/2007/02/13/windows-home-server-beta-2-signup/#comment-168 Meh, I prefer my headless server (with a <a href="http://www.daniel15.com/blog/2007/02/11/setting-up-a-serial-console-on-linux/" rel="nofollow">serial console</a> in case I ever need it), and <a href="http://www.daniel15.com/blog/2006/11/22/linux-vserver-debian-etch/" rel="nofollow">Linux-Vserver</a> (Linux-Vserver is very resource efficient, I've currently got 4 virtual servers working perfectly on a Pentium III 650 MHz with 256 MB RAM :)) "instantly (well, give or take an hour) restore your whole machine from the server, back to how it was at 12AM last night? " I'd just rsync a backup over ;) "really nice configuration interface" Webmin is nice enough for me :) "uTorrent with it’s web user interface" It's = Contraction for "it is" or "it was" or something Its = Possessive, belonging to it :) Meh, I prefer my headless server (with a serial console in case I ever need it), and Linux-Vserver (Linux-Vserver is very resource efficient, I’ve currently got 4 virtual servers working perfectly on a Pentium III 650 MHz with 256 MB RAM :) )

“instantly (well, give or take an hour) restore your whole machine from the server, back to how it was at 12AM last night? ”
I’d just rsync a backup over ;)

“really nice configuration interface”
Webmin is nice enough for me :)

“uTorrent with it’s web user interface”
It’s = Contraction for “it is” or “it was” or something
Its = Possessive, belonging to it
:)

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