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Automated centralized backup solution

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kumquat

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I'm currently using Windows Home Server 2011 to keep four client PCs backed up. It works for my purposes but I'm wondering what I should be moving to in the future once that's gone. The thing I like about WHS is that the client that runs on the PCs keeps me informed of missed backups and gives me a centralized reporting and restoring point.

What do other people use?
 
kumquat said:
I'm currently using Windows Home Server 2011 to keep four client PCs backed up. It works for my purposes but I'm wondering what I should be moving to in the future once that's gone. The thing I like about WHS is that the client that runs on the PCs keeps me informed of missed backups and gives me a centralized reporting and restoring point.

What do other people use?
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I have a home NAS (running CentOS 6) that all my Windows PCs (and OSX) mount network drives from. Users (me and my wife) store personal files on network shares and the network shares get backed up automatically on the server to an external drive.

Works pretty well and is transparent to clients.
 
devman said:
I have a home NAS (running CentOS 6) that all my Windows PCs (and OSX) mount network drives from. Users (me and my wife) store personal files on network shares and the network shares get backed up automatically on the server to an external drive.

Works pretty well and is transparent to clients.
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Yes, that's what I do for files but I like the automatic local backup functionality of WHS. Being able to do a 30-minute bare metal restore of a PC has come in handy several times, and I want to retain that. I know I can do this using Windows Backup on the clients themselves but I'd like to be able to view and manage backup status and do restores from a centralized location the way I can in WHS.
 
According to Microsoft, Server 2012 Essentials is the replacement for WHS 2011.

Yeah, kinda, but it's FAR more expensive and if you don't want your clients on a domain you need to run a reg script to block the domain add when installing the connector software.

It can also be a bit tricky to troubleshoot when something goes wrong. Documentation is awful IMHO.
 
I have Crashplan actually. It's not at all what I'm looking for though.

But thanks. It looks like Server 2012 R2 actually does what I need. I didn't realize there was a client plugin similar to the WHS 2011 plugin that does bare-metal backups.
 
I use Macrium Reflect for backing up my PCs. I save backups on my WD MyBook Live.
 
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