January 28, 2008:

• Carbonite recognizes partition changes

  In the middle of all this weeks chaos, it’s nice to see something work correctly. After repartioning drives, and rebooting, Carbonite realizes something serious has happened and goes into recovery mode. This means that automatic backups will not start overwriting existing offsite backups and gives you a chance to fetch restorable copies before letting the […]

January 26, 2008:

• Acronis backup loses files

  While trying to test a backup from Windows Home Server. A logical drive was backed up using Acronis True Image into an empty logical drive on a different physical drive and created a single .tlb file. Then this file was restored into another empty logical drive a. The restored copy was compared against the original […]

January 17, 2008:

• HP MediaSmart Server - Installation

  Setting up the HP Media Server is the simplest server install I have ever done. Brings back memories of NT server installs which might take hours, or even worse early Netware installs, which might take a day just to format the drive.
  Basic install took about 10 minutes, and another 5 minutes to set up the […]

January 16, 2008:

• HP MediaSmart - got it!

  I walked in to BestBuy today just getting some odds and ends, and surprise, they have one in stock, hidden on a top shelf. No one seems to know anything about it, and it probably only just arrived. Grabbed it while it’s there and I will have to restrain myself from installing it, since […]

December 13, 2007:

• HP MediaSmart - not yet

  Checked today if the HP MediaSmart server is available in Canada yet. BestBuy and TigerDirect and HP both list it online, but it seems it is a false promise; when pushed it seems they are taking orders, but delivery is sometime in January.
  Annoying, I need to get a better backup system in place.

November 27, 2007:

• HP MediaSmart Server - A new way to backup

  I just found a new way to handle backups - the HP MediaSmart Server. This is a cute looking box by HP, and running Microsoft’s Windows Home Server (based on the Windows 2003 Server product).
  This is the product I was looking for earlier this year - some form of network attached disk drive that would […]