A Frustrating Journey
Santa’s finished his deliveries and is tipping back a few. Time for me to wrap things up for the year and get ready for the next one. Not much has changed since the last trail log but I figured it was as good as time as any to wrap things up. There's power upgrades, wireless upgrades and home server changes in this trail log. Read the rest »
November was a busy month on the Quest, not all of it stuff I would have wanted to do or expected, but it’s turning out OK. That's not a recent picture, but we did have our first dusting of snow this month. I’ve completed a couple of system builds. There was my new home server (more on that later). I’ discussed the CPU and motherboard I picked for the build, but my PC upgrades turned into a complete system build as everything was replaced except for the Velociraptor drive. But even that was demoted as my system drive. Read the rest »
With the next version of Windows Home Server just around the corner (I hope) and having built a new server for when version 2 is released, I figured this would be a good time to write about how I use Windows Home Server. In this article I describe how I currently use WHS. Read the rest »
Links to Windows Home Server Vail information I've found of interest on the web. Read the rest »
It's been a year since I looked at my backup strategy. Having just rebuilt my PC twice in the last few weeks it was a good time to go through the review. It's a bit of a hodgepodge but it's automatic and works. Here's the tools I use and a high-level view of how I do the backups. Read the rest »
October comes to a close here in the States (and a few other countries) things have been moving along on the quest. There was a new OS, but after installing Ubuntu 10.10 to VirtualBox I haven’t used it very much. Instead I’ve spent most of my time working on my system builds. This past month was mostly about Vail and a new Windows Home Server system build. At the end of the month I started work on my PC upgrade. Read the rest »
Windows Home Server “Code Name Vail” (WHS Version 2) has been in public beta for awhile, in fact it was refreshed over a month ago. I finally got around to installing it last weekend and I really, really like. Of course, I haven’t really dug into it so there may be some ugliness under the covers. It’s beta software so bugs are to be expected. I ran into a couple minor or annoying things that already had a bug report opened for them. But for the most part I like what I see and I'm even more eager for the final release. Read the rest »
One of the nice features of Windows Home Server is that the existing drives can be moved around without breaking anything. I benefited from this recently and did mention it in my last Trail Log but figured it was worth highlighting as a tip. If you need to rearrange disk in a Windows Home Server or move them to new connections you can do so without any special work (other than shutting down WHS for the move). When I moved the warm hard drives from the internal bays to the [...] Read the rest »
May was a slow month on the Quest. But KeepVault ended up being a keeper and the iPad is taking over. Read the rest »
I’ve been using Jungle Disk as my offsite backup solution with the backup going to Rackspace Cloud Files (RCF). This has worked but it has become expensive over time as the amount of files being stored continues to grow. I found a good backup solution with KeepVault Backup. Read the rest »