Originally Posted by David
For the more timely local backups, Windows Server 2008 comes with its own backup utility that allows the entire primary drive to be incrementally backed up to the second server without shutting down the program on the primary server. This runs every 30 minutes.
David,

Let me know how this works. I am guessing I have the same backup program as you on SBS 2008. Maybe not. But, it has a lot of limitations, first being where you can back up. It generally can't back up to a networked location. Maybe the second server is connected directly. Plus, one of the strangest things about it, and this is what it does with mine, is how it "takes over" the media. For instance, I back up to a 1TB external drive. Before Windows Backup gets involved, you can see the drive, the drive letter, and the size of the drive. You can, of course, open it and view its contents. When you run Windows Backup, it looks for possible places to back up. It doesn't seem as if it would select your second server. If it works, I don't doubt you. Now, it finds my eSATA drive and asks me if I want to select that. It finds one other as well. These are all directly connected via USB. I don't even think you can use an eSATA connector. As soon as you select it, it formats it and makes it unusable for anything but backups. It's as if it is turned into stone. You can't open it. You can't see how much data is inside it. You can't even view your backups directly.

So, I guess I am wondering if it is doing the same thing to your server. I don't see how it could, but it would have to just consume it.

Bert
Pediatrics
Brewer, Maine