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WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 BETA PC
WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 BETA WINDOWS 8
WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 BETA WINDOWS

WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 BETA WINDOWS

At least now perhaps there's hope my overnight backup window can be shortened, should I choose to use WS2012E ( Windows Server 2012 Essentials), once released it's out of beta. What had me worried is that backing up those machines overnight was often a problem on WHS2011, but had worked fine on WHSv1. The restore to the laptop took longer of course, but at least the results still look like I may actually have a faster way to go forward with my massive 4TB of backup data, from 12 PCs I back up daily (some over VPN), described at /whywss2008r2essentials, and seen here:Īlso seen are bad Sundays, where the weekly clean-up task takes so long, that most machines are left powered-on, queued to backup, but unable to complete much of anything, because the weekly daily backup because of the weekly "Cleanup" and "Consistency Checker" tasks in the Task Scheduler taking >12 hours to complete: The results aren't terribly scientific, but a quick look at the below video, and I believe you'll agree the performance does appear to be pretty impressive. WHS2011 would just sit there, loafing along at under 10% CPU, disk, and network, seemingly internally throttled somehow. I'll admit, this was on a RAID0 of 2 SSDs:īut still, wow, finally the CPU on the server is actually a bit busy, as it processes/un-dedupes the backups database on the fly, sending the bits out.

WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 BETA WINDOWS 8

I performed a backup of a virtual machine (12GB of data on a Windows 8 Release Preview build), took 10 minutes.Īnd I backed up a physical laptop (60GB of Windows 7 on ThinkPad T60).Ī bare-metal restore of 12GB of a Windows 8 VM in under 2 minutes.Ī bare-metal restore of 50GB of data to a ThinkPad in 45 minutes. And of course there is always local RAID storage to leverage, and that's where things are looking good,

Storage Spaces is not something you need to use if you don't wish to. No idea if Storage Spaces will be any good once released, and there's reason for concern here, we'll have to wait and see. Perhaps much of those performance issues are now behind us. I'm very relieved to say that my intial tests of Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials are going well on this day of it's release.

This behavior was pretty well documented on numerous forums and Microsoft Connect, such as here and here. So WHS2011's dirty little not-so-secret was that it was often 2-5x slower than WHSv1, on the same physical or virtual hardware.

WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 BETA PC

Things get dicey once your PC Backups folder gets past about 3TB of data in there, really because of the SIS/de-duping that I absolutely require in a backup product. And I learned that you don't really want 25 PCs to back up daily with WHSv1 or WHS2011, if they have decent amounts of data. I even opened an MSDN trouble ticket and a bug report, learning more about how the backup database actually works along the way.

WHS2011 was more robust, with better error recovery, but took very long for first backup and subsequent backups, and file restores.

WHSv1 was fast, but had issues with recovering from any issues with the PC Client Backups database.

Most of the bare-metal backup and restore capabilities do live on, and the technical underpinnings of Windows Server 2012 Essentials do seem to be a step forward as far as performance, which is also good. Perhaps the recent news of the death of Windows Home Server was overblown a tad.

Posted by Paul Braren on (updated on Aug 21 2012) in