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We have over 300 gb of data to back up and the average price per gigabyte with services like Rackspace is about 15 cents.
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But wait! This wasn’t an online backup service, this was actual software that allowed you to choose your own service provider. But will it work on Windows Home Server 2011? After browsing their website some more, I was really excited to discover that they had a version just for WHS called CloudBerry WHS 2011 Backup. I read over the features and thought, maybe this will do the job. I found one of their products called CloudBerry Desktop Edition. I did some Googling and discovered CloudBerry. After my research didn’t turn up any viable options, I remembered that WHS allowed third party plug-ins and I wondered if there was a back up option available. Since we already had remote access to our files, the only thing we really needed was a place to safely store our data in case of data loss. So what about online back up? We explored our options and found that most online backup services were way to expensive. I did some more reading and found that WHS allowed you to connect to your server remotely and access all of your files securely. But that wasn’t enough, we needed to be able to access those file from anywhere there was an internet connection as well as backup all those files to a safe and secure online storage system. I dove into the details of the features that it offered and discovered how simple it would be to just put all of our files on the network and create network shares.
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After some thought, we realized we weren’t using the server to it’s full potential as it could have been used as a file server and a backup server as well. It’s main purpose was to become a media server for all of our movies and tv shows. Over the summer, we decided to build a Windows Home Server using WHS 2011. With these problems in mind, we set off to explore our options.
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So just the other day, we received an invoice from the backup service to pay for another whole year. The backup service would save older revisions but this didn’t help us if the document was newly created. Another was when we used Quark Express and saved a file to the live drive, that file would sometimes become corrupted and there was no way to get it back unless we had an older copy already saved. This was just one of the problems we experienced. One of the problems we faced was that we were using USB drives as our local storage and if the computer went to sleep, upon awakening, the back up software would crash and we had to restart the computer.
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For this to happen, we had to install software on each computer we wanted to back up and we had to designate local storage space to keep local copies of each file that were shared using the live drive setup. Over the past year, we’ve been using an online backup service that allowed us to backup all of our files on our home network as well as share all of the files between computers and online. This is our personal observation and experience and this blog was written without compensation. DISCLAIMER: This is a review of CloudBerry WHS 2011 Backup.