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What ways are there to copy a windows home server backup to an offsite location?
I'm talking specifically (and only) about the automated backup of my entire machine, and not the shared network folders.
I am 90% working away from home on my laptop which has a 640GB drive so the shared folders are essentially useless to me. I backup every night, but if my house burns down or broken into the I'm in serious serious trouble !
I'm really looking for some alternative way to back up my entire machine - which much not interfere with the reliability or speed by which my WHS backs up my laptop every night. Either a way to 'export' a complete machine backup from the server, or recommendations on non-conflicting software I can backup to a 1TB drive at work are what I'm looking for.
Note: I believe that WHS uses its own completely proprietary backup and doesn't use things like any 'backup bit' or 'archive bit'. I just dont want to install some other backup software that will conflict.
PS I'm now running Windows 7 and just realized that I should probably check out the backup functionality it gives me. I assume that won't conflict right!
Edit: Thanks for the hosted solutions. I'd also appreciate ways to backup to an 'offsite' location that I control - like my office vs. my home. The hosted solutions I think will be too slow or expensive for my needs.
1I think that what the original poster was looking for was a way to backup the WHS backups. In other words, the FOLDERS directory which contains the backups of all the home PCs. I too am struggling with this as it seems that very solution backs up the shared folders only. I have been struggling with this for some time myself. I want an offsite backup of my WHS backups. Any ideas? – None – 2010-12-23T05:41:13.350
exactly! my machine backups are MORE important to me than shared fonders - which i pretty much don't even use since i'm always working on a laptop – Simon – 2010-12-31T04:58:30.710