14 DAY TRIAL // Windows Home Server exclusion model is the way to go for all users. Placed at the heart of a multi-PC home network, Windows Home Server is designed to perform tasks while keeping a low, if not invisible, profile. And backup is a core functionality that Windows Home Server brings to small networks.
Microsoft has automated the backup process to the point where all that the users have to is to deploy the Windows Home Server Connector software. The machines connected with the Windows Home Server are automatically configured for backup every night. "Windows Home Server was designed to automate the backups of home computers running Windows XP and Windows Vista. The goal behind the design was to ideally ask zero questions, and be incredibly space efficient in how much hard disk space is needed for all of these backups," revealed Todd Headrick, product planner for the Microsoft Windows Home Server.
Microsoft informed that, although the backup configuration process is automated, users have the possibility to fine tune the settings via the Windows Home Server Console application. Users will implement the exclusion model when changing the backup configuration. In this context, Headrick revealed that Windows Home Server is built to backup the entire hardware/hardwares, and that users can exclude partitions or folders.
"Windows Home Server is designed so you can completely restore a PC, including the operating system, applications, and data from a backup stored on your home server. The technology the team developed for storing the backups of your home computers on your home server is incredibily space efficient. In that the home server only stores each unique cluster it finds on a PC only once on the home server," Headrick explained.