This month on the OS Quest has been another light one. Mainly revolving around the upcoming release of Windows Home Server 2011. Read the rest »
WHS 2011 Backup Add-Ins: Cloudberry & KeepVault
CloudberryConsoleAs part of my Windows Home Server 2011 evaluation I’ve been looking at two backup add-ins – Cloudberry Online Backup for Windows Home Server and KeepVault. I’ve been using KeepVault with my Windows Home Server v1 for just under a year. I’ve heard about Cloudberry off and on but never looked into it, probably turned off by the name. It's time to compare the two of them. Read the rest »
Browser Usage On TheOSQuest
With Internet Explorer 9 just released and Firefox 4 about to be unleashed I thought I’d take a look at browser usage on the OS Quest. This is as reported by Google Analytics. My own site access isn’t included in the totals. Read the rest »
Windows Home Server 2011 Resurrected
Windows Home Server is back on the Quest, I gave into an impulse and replaced my Ubuntu Server with Windows Home Server 2011 RC1 and put it into production. Despite some hardware problems it's been pretty reliable. Performance hasn't reached the level of the Ubuntu Server but there are other benefits. Read the rest »
TonidoPlug: Formatting a Attached Hard Drive
I just received the TonidoPlug and wanted to use ext3 as the file system on the drives I attached to it. Unfortunately I didn't have an easy way to format a drive with ext3. So I used the TonidoPlug itself to do the formatting. Read the rest »