okay so this is going to be my next video on Windows Home Server and I'm going to start going through the basics
of how to make Home Server work for you so the first thing you're going to want
to configure on your home server is computers and backups in this case I've
only got one computer hooked up to my home server you can see right now it
says the status is not backed
up if I could zoom in and focus that would be terrific right about now okay
well anyway it says not backed up and what I'm going to do is I'm going to
configure backup so welcome to the backup configuration wizard I click next
please wait while the wizard collects information about this computer what
it's doing right now is it's finding out how many hard drives are on my computer
how full it is and it's calculating how much space it will take on the Home
Server etc etc choose the volumes that you want to back up so I'm going to back
up my system reserved volume as well as my c local disk you can add folders to
exclude from the backup so by default it
does not back up recorded TV user your
temporary files uh Shadow volume hibernation file a few key things it
does not back up the recycle bin folder so if there's anything you want it to
not back up you can go ahead and add it here so it's got a whole list of all of
the directories for example I don't need it to back up the ATI folder you know
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
congratulations you have successfully configured KPC to be backed up it was
that simple so now I could run a backup now but the whole process will probably
take about 20 minutes and I'd rather keep filming this video um but you can
also okay can figure backups hold on a
second um view backups oh yeah here's
how you view the backups so from here you can you'll see a list of all the
backups that you've created you can change settings for individual backups
so you can set them to either be managed automatically which will be in your
master settings which I can show you in a minute you can set it to keep this
backup forever or delete it the next backup cleanup now if you highlight one
of the backups and click details you can actually browse the entire backup of
your hard drive from this Windows Home Server console you can drag and drop
files onto your desktop and it is a terrific way to get back you know uh
your mom's Word document that she accidentally deleted uh because it will
it will keep it for as long as you tell it to keep the backups so now we have
figured that out so why don't I go and show you the backup settings and then
we'll call out a video so backup time home computers are backed up during the
backup time that's fairly self-explanatory so I'm going to set
mine to run from uh 3:00 a.m. cuz I
definitely won't be awake at that time to 7:00 a.m. I'm never up that early so
that's when it'll run all the backups here is the automatic backup management
So when you say uh manage automatically these are the rules that will follow so
I like to keep a good number of daily backups uh I don't particularly care
about the weekly backups cuz I I rarely go into those and then I like to keep a
good number of monthly backups as well something about the backups though is
that it does not use up the full like this computer has a 100 gigs used on the
drive it doesn't use up 100 gigs every time you back up it only rebacks up the
data that has actually changed so storing a bunch of backups of the same
computer if you're not completely formatting and then refilling your hard
drive with completely different stuff actually won't take up a ton of space
there's also a button here to repair the backup database if it becomes corrupted
this can happen if a hard drive fails but it's not a huge deal and then you
can also clean up the database now to get rid of any backups that you don't
want so I'm going to click okay and that is how to configure backups on the
Windows Home Server it's really quite simple