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Windows home server based network drives

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Perryg114

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I was wondering if there is a way to setup WHS to let you partition part of the disk space as a network drive that you can write to real time. So if I want real time network storage I don't have to have a WHS machine and then another machine or box to give me network drives. I want to be able to store files remotely instead of keeping them on the local disk. Actually, I would like to mirror to the network drive but it seems that all the programs that I have seen that do real time mirroring are web based. It would seem like a network based mirror system would be a lot faster and simpler to implement but I have not found much.

Perry
 
I'm still not sure what you are trying to accomplish. But if you want to add a separate hard drive to a WHS server and just share it to the network, you can do that. It won't be used by the WHS for anything, unless you tell WHS to send backups of its file shares to it. You can only do this with an entire "disk" (real or virtual). I'm not sure why you'd do it this way instead of just sending data to the WHS shared folders.
 
Correct me if I am wrong, but Windows home server does not do anything real time. It waits till you copy stuff to shared folders or it waits till night time to backup your remote machines on the network.

I guess what I want is the equivalent of a RAID array but one disk is in the computer and the other one is at a remote computer. I am trying to make mirror copies automatically as security cam video is created, this way if the machine that is taking the video is stolen or destroyed by thieves there will be a backup in a place they can't find. It is more of a hobby but it would seem like anyone wanting to have a security system with cameras would potentially want a secure copy somewhere else that is kept up to date pretty much real time. I have used syncplicity but it slows my machine down and hogs internet bandwidth because you are uploading data to the net which is alot slower than downloading data off the net. WHS is nice and has some cool features but it does not accomplish my main goal of mirroring. This is more of a challenge than an absolute need.

Perry
 
Google brings up plenty of real time file sync programs. If you are copying over the internet to another computer outside the network, of course its going to be slow and bandwidth intensive. There isn't a real way around that. If you don't need to go over the internet, just point the file sync program to a share on the WHS server and it will copy all of the stuff to that all the time.
 
How do I put a non-WHS pooled drive on my network without it requiring password protection. My mirror program can't access the drive if it is password protected.
 
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