My Experience w/ Windows Home Server vs. Acronis.

[taltamir]

For all I know his Acer EZ cube is the problem.

Irrelevant deflection. You accused him of user error.

I put the WHS restore disk into my machine, pick which image I want and restore it.

Irrelevant deflection. If it worked for you it is no indication that his failed due to user error.

I can and have done the same with Acronis.

Irrelevant, and so did he.

I've had MANY problems with WHS v1 but restoring was never one of them.

Which is why I placed the fault with WHS, as it has many documented issues.
Thank you for supporting my side of the argument.

Do you have a WHS taltamir?

Irrelevant deflection.
Also, this is like a cancer patient saying "do you have cancer, doctor?" when the doctor tries to explain to him that crystals don't cure cancer.

Bottom line is, You accused him of user error.

 

[Old Hippie]

Irrelevant deflection. You accused him of user error.


Irrelevant deflection. If it worked for you it is no indication that his failed due to user error.


Irrelevant, and so did he.


Which is why I placed the fault with WHS, as it has many documented issues.
Thank you for supporting my side of the argument.


Irrelevant deflection.
Also, this is like a cancer patient saying "do you have cancer, doctor?" when the doctor tries to explain to him that crystals don't cure cancer.

Bottom line is, You accused him of user error.

LOL!

Whatever you say!

 

[dbcooper1]

Although WHS does include the majority of needed network drivers, I've run into this a couple times too. I loaded what it needed from the CD for the board in the system I was restoring and it worked after that. I think it was one of the newer Realtek 1Gb. The other time I think I used another system to download the needed drivers to a USB device and that worked too. I've even restored a system over a wireless connection after providing it the driver. The time to discover this is before you need it of course, but that seldom makes it to the top of the list of things to do..

 

[GoodEnough]

The drivers are a moot issue. I used drivers. The piece of shit still failed. Forget about the damn drivers. WHS RESTORE DOES NOT WORK EVEN WITH DRIVERS. How hard is that to understand?

Also, people are STUCK on this idea of testing WHS before needing a live restore. That is exactly what I was doing. I did a test restore that blew away my laptop. The point still remains, THE RESTORE DIDNT WORK. It has jack shit to do with whether it was a test restore or a live restore. Moot point. WHS = FAIL either way.

 

[Old Hippie]

I'm sorry you had a bad experience but as you can see there's many of us that have had no problem.

Good luck with whatever backup you decide to use.

 

[Binky]

I agree that there is a lot of fail in this thread. There has also been an idiot mentioned. The OP believes that WHS is fail, and the designers are idiots. I have my own ideas. The readers of this thread can develop their own conclusions.

 

[Old Hippie]

Bottom line is, You accused him of user error.

Yes I did and still do.

The biggest "irrelevant" in this thread is you.

 

[GoodEnough]

Factory WHS boot disk doesn't even work with SATA drives! You need to make your own. Personally, I am done with this joke of a utility, but someone may find this useful.

http://sstjean.blogspot.com/2009/03/windows-home-server-restore-cd-getting.html

 

[Binky]

Oh no, a boot disk created almost FOUR years ago can't recognize some devices made after it was created. Amazing?!?!

There is an updated boot disk available from MS. There is also an even better updated disk available if you just google x-files. I mentioned this in your other thread (where you have the EXACT same rant as here) in post #4.

Why you are tolerated here is beyond me. You are posting the same thing in two nearly identical threads. Your language is inappropriate. Every time I post here I feel like I'm feeding the troll, but I just can't stop myself.

 

[GoodEnough]

Ouch. Pwned!