WHS main drive fail

[kobyhud]

Has the reliability of windows home server when the main OS drive has failed been tested?

 

[Corbu]

Yes, there is an add-on for that.
WHS BDBB.

 

[PowerMAC]

Yes, there is an add-on for that.
WHS BDBB.

I fail to see how this WHS add-in that backs up WHS's DataBase Backup answers the original question of the topic starter ... am I missing something here?

 

[jam3ohio]

Bdbb

That add-in is for backing up the backups. It takes a copy of the system backup files and registry entries.

If the main system drive fails, you need to do a reinstallation of the os and currently I am not aware of anything that backs up the os partition of that drive. In other words, reinstalling the os means that you can lose add-ins installed and if you have installed any apps via rdc, you need to reinstall them, you need to reset users, etc. WHS has a pretty good methodology for restoring.

As far as data is concerned, if you enable duplication, data is saved to different physical drives. If a data drive fails, the data is rebuilt from the other drive when a new one is reinserted. You can also back up the data on the shares to either an unmanaged drive or an external drive.

Hope that helps...

Jim

 

[Corbu]

OK, so there are ways to recover in case one of the drives fails, even the OS drive. But one thing puzzles me and it is common in IT > what if the computer dies (fried motherboard, CPU, etc) and you need to move all the drives in a new PC? Can WHS recover after that, will it work virtually in a new PC or is your data gone?