I doubt I'm the first to think of this, but thought I'd share anyway...
After getting my WHS 2011 up-and-running, I wondered what to do with my WHS V1? It's been a great server for the last three years, so dumping it seemed almost wrong.
Here's what I came up with: I use my WHS V1 as a backup to the shared pool for my WHS 2011 server. Everynight, I run Cloudberry on WHS 2011 to automatically backup the entire WHS 2011 shared pool (I use Stablebit DrivePool) by using a folder I created in my WHS V1 server. WHS V1 uses Lights Out to awaken every morning at 5am, the backup starts at 5:30am, and then WHS V1 goes into sleep mode by 9am.
I live in South Florida, and my neighbors across the street from me are all without power right now thanks to Isaac, so I thought of another benefit of this arrangement. My WHS V1 is the Acer 340 box -- small and easily detached from my network (just the power cable and ethernet). My WHS 2011 is a refurbished Dell dekstop, installed in a rolltop desk with quite a few connections to it. In the event of an emergency, I can very easily detach my WHS V1 server and take it with me, knowing I have all my data inside that reliable black box.
My network has never been so automated, and my data has never been stored this redundantly!
After getting my WHS 2011 up-and-running, I wondered what to do with my WHS V1? It's been a great server for the last three years, so dumping it seemed almost wrong.
Here's what I came up with: I use my WHS V1 as a backup to the shared pool for my WHS 2011 server. Everynight, I run Cloudberry on WHS 2011 to automatically backup the entire WHS 2011 shared pool (I use Stablebit DrivePool) by using a folder I created in my WHS V1 server. WHS V1 uses Lights Out to awaken every morning at 5am, the backup starts at 5:30am, and then WHS V1 goes into sleep mode by 9am.
I live in South Florida, and my neighbors across the street from me are all without power right now thanks to Isaac, so I thought of another benefit of this arrangement. My WHS V1 is the Acer 340 box -- small and easily detached from my network (just the power cable and ethernet). My WHS 2011 is a refurbished Dell dekstop, installed in a rolltop desk with quite a few connections to it. In the event of an emergency, I can very easily detach my WHS V1 server and take it with me, knowing I have all my data inside that reliable black box.
My network has never been so automated, and my data has never been stored this redundantly!