Hi,
After updating my home computers to WIndows 8.1 my WHS would no longer take backups of any of my laptops. After spending many hours with MS customer service and googling forums for info it seems that windows 8 and 8.1 are no longer supporting WHS v1. On a side note, Windows 8 was working for backups then once I upgraded to 8.1 they stopped working. From what I've been told by MS this is a fluke...I assume more people will be encountering the same problem as me.
From all the forum reading I've been doing this is where I'm at. I was going to upgrade to WHS2011, but after hearing about support expiring in 2016 (I haven't been able to confirm this though) I decided to upgrade to Windows Sever 2012 R2, also I was able to get a copy for free so that helped make the decision.
I've purchased a 120GB SSD to keep the new OS on and a 3TB HDD to back up my data from the server. I am hoping that the 2 GB of RAM will be sufficient for basic use.
Has anyone had experience backing up their WHS? I know that I can drag-and-drop the files I want to keep, but I was hoping that there was a way to back up all the data including the back-ups of my computers.
I'm planning to start everything this weekend. If anyone has any helpful tips or suggestions they would be much appreciated.
I'll post up how things go in case anyone else is considering doing the same thing.
Thanks in advance.