Action Pants

A while ago I got a copy of Windows Home Server and I installed it on an extra machine that I had.  It was really awesome and I loved it but something happened where I needed to steal the hard drive for something else or I got busy with something so my HS box was out of commission.

Now about a year or so has gone by and I have been looking for an easy no thinking way of keeping my laptop backed up.  I am running Windows 7 and have a NAS so I have setup a Windows Backup to run once a week to it. It does the full image backup everytime so it takes a while so I am not always doing a backup every week depending on if I need to use my computer or not. And for some reason Gigbit isnt really working on my laptop/docking bay so it's running at 100 mbs which is also kind of painful.

I was talking to one my friends and he was raving about how much he loved his HS and that finally got me into a kick and I started making a list of what I need to get my HS up again. I managed to dig up a spare 250 Gig and found the installation CD's so I went ahead and did the install on that same box. After I got it up and running I installed the Connector software on my laptop and am running my first backup. I will be so excited when it's done cause from now on all my backups will take so much less time because of how HS handles doing a full image backup.

I have already installed the Disk Management Add-in and will probably get around to playing around with the rest of Add-ins eventually. For now I am just going to be happy to not have to thinking about backups anymore.