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If you want the backup to be better then you could buy a Drobo and install as much or as little storage as you wish.  To get this working and to have the abililty to upgrade the storage without the problems of USB, you need to use the network abilitiy.  This means that your WHS must have two Network cards, and your Drobo must have the Droboshare if your Drobo is not the DroboPro.

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As we all now load our computers full of memories such as those once in a lifetime photos and videos, or love ones that are no longer with us.  All we need is to loss them when an hard drive goes.

Like most geeks I tell everyone else to backup, but sometimes forget to backup myself and that has led to memories being lost until I was able to recover most of the files from the dead hard drive via recovery software.

If you backup to the Windows Home Server, then are you not putting all your eggs into one basket.  With Power Pack 1 – Microsoft has allowed users to add a Hard drive as a Server backup, it is better to have this hard drive not in the system but as an external drive, meaning that you can move that hard drive to someone offsite in case of fire/flood.

If you are using your WHS as a backup and share of all your files then you MUST backup your WHS, don’t put your trust on the Hard drive that is in your WHS or any of your computers (Windows/Mac/Linux) or even a Network Attached Storage.

There is a saying you have not backed up a file unless there is three (or more) copies of it.

It is easy to backup your WHS, for this example I will be just be

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