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okay so this is going to be my next video on Windows Home Server and I'm going to start going through the basics

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of how to make Home Server work for you so the first thing you're going to want

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to configure on your home server is computers and backups in this case I've

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only got one computer hooked up to my home server you can see right now it

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says the status is not backed

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up if I could zoom in and focus that would be terrific right about now okay

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well anyway it says not backed up and what I'm going to do is I'm going to

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configure backup so welcome to the backup configuration wizard I click next

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please wait while the wizard collects information about this computer what

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it's doing right now is it's finding out how many hard drives are on my computer

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how full it is and it's calculating how much space it will take on the Home

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Server etc etc choose the volumes that you want to back up so I'm going to back

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up my system reserved volume as well as my c local disk you can add folders to

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exclude from the backup so by default it

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does not back up recorded TV user your

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temporary files uh Shadow volume hibernation file a few key things it

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does not back up the recycle bin folder so if there's anything you want it to

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not back up you can go ahead and add it here so it's got a whole list of all of

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the directories for example I don't need it to back up the ATI folder you know

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there's something I don't need it to back up I don't need it to back up the NVIDIA folder so let's click next

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congratulations you have successfully configured KPC to be backed up it was

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that simple so now I could run a backup now but the whole process will probably

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take about 20 minutes and I'd rather keep filming this video um but you can

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also okay can figure backups hold on a

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second um view backups oh yeah here's

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how you view the backups so from here you can you'll see a list of all the

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backups that you've created you can change settings for individual backups

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so you can set them to either be managed automatically which will be in your

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master settings which I can show you in a minute you can set it to keep this

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backup forever or delete it the next backup cleanup now if you highlight one

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of the backups and click details you can actually browse the entire backup of

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your hard drive from this Windows Home Server console you can drag and drop

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files onto your desktop and it is a terrific way to get back you know uh

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your mom's Word document that she accidentally deleted uh because it will

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it will keep it for as long as you tell it to keep the backups so now we have

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figured that out so why don't I go and show you the backup settings and then

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we'll call out a video so backup time home computers are backed up during the

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backup time that's fairly self-explanatory so I'm going to set

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mine to run from uh 3:00 a.m. cuz I

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definitely won't be awake at that time to 7:00 a.m. I'm never up that early so

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that's when it'll run all the backups here is the automatic backup management

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So when you say uh manage automatically these are the rules that will follow so

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I like to keep a good number of daily backups uh I don't particularly care

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about the weekly backups cuz I I rarely go into those and then I like to keep a

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good number of monthly backups as well something about the backups though is

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that it does not use up the full like this computer has a 100 gigs used on the

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drive it doesn't use up 100 gigs every time you back up it only rebacks up the

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data that has actually changed so storing a bunch of backups of the same

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computer if you're not completely formatting and then refilling your hard

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drive with completely different stuff actually won't take up a ton of space

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there's also a button here to repair the backup database if it becomes corrupted

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this can happen if a hard drive fails but it's not a huge deal and then you

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can also clean up the database now to get rid of any backups that you don't

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want so I'm going to click okay and that is how to configure backups on the

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Windows Home Server it's really quite simple