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1 TopicMigrating From Windows Home Server: Questions
I have been a Windows Home Server user since circa 2007 with a HP MediaSmart Multimedia Server and later a HP DataVault Server. The nice thing about both of these is the console software was very transparent for setting up PC Backups for disaster recovery, media streaming, file duplication of share folders on the server, and remote desktop access to both the server files and each PC connected to the Home Server. Unfortunately, the HP MediaSmart and DataVault Servers were discontinued some years ago. So, after many years of happy use, I am slowing facing the reality that no one is picking up the void and providing an equally capable replacement to these great machines at about the same price... so... I am giving the ReadyNAS a test go. It's pre-Netgear box was the solution I considered while I was considering the WHS offerings of HP and others. My ReadyNAS 424 arrived yesterday and I just opened the box, put in four IronWolf (Seagate) 2 TB drives and started it up. Worked fine out of the box (although the drive holders worked very different than what I am use to with the HP boxes and the instructions were lacking, thus a bit of guess work for getting the drives into them was necessary). It is currently syncing and RAID 5 seemed to automatically set itself up. I also figured out how to start a backup job as a test of one of my HP Datavault shares.. It is running as I write this. Unfortunately, doing the things the WHS based boxes does won't be as straightforward. I have spent a bunch of time researching possible solutions on the internet and think some of the things can be done (PC file backups, Server data file backups, and Multimedia Streaming), but all look less than straight forward and remote desktop access to my individual PCs seem to be beyond the capability of the ReadyNAS, although prepurchase research matched my expectations with these realities. I expect that I am not the first user to migrate from WHS boxes to "something else." And, I hope not the first to use the ReadyNAS. So, I was wondering if there were any out there that would like to share solutions for exploiting the ReadyNAS capabilities for giving as many of the functions of the WHS boxes as possible. This is my first Linux based machine since the old SnapServer days and I must say that the interface is daunting in comparison to the WHS console. I was hope for "Backup PC" buttons, and "Stream Music buttons", and "duplicate folder" buttons, but it seems I need to back up every share individually and first create a mirror of directories so that each share to be backed up is represented in the ReadyNAS before I get to the Settings definitions. It seems to be a lot of work and the organization of each PC's backup seems all manual, unlike the WHS boxes. Also, streaming, I guess, requires activating an app, not preinstalled. And there seems to be a couple to choose from. So if I can tap into the wisdom of others who have taken this trek before me, I would rather not reinvent the wheel. Any help will be appreciated. Thanx in advance TheDoctor (a.k.a. TheDoctor165, 'cause someone else got the former first)Solved5.9KViews0likes16Comments