MS Windows Home Server

I guess I must be part of a very small minority. Judging by the small number of posts, no one seems to be particularly concerned about recovering the system partition of a WHS. I find this to be very strange. In the corporate world, being able to quickly & reliably backup & restore servers is considered essential. Why not for WHS? It is a server after all.

I should clarify what I'm getting at. I do have a Server Recovery disk from my vendor, Acer. I do not consider it to be even remotely adequate. It can only get me back to the state the server was in when it was first installed. That is not what I would consider easy.

Instead of being able to get my server back up & fully functional in 20 minutes, I would have to spend most of an hour just installing the OS, then another 30 minutes configuring the system, then at least an hour downloading & installing patches & updates, then more time installing and configuring Add-ins. Oh, and don't forget about all the reboots that would be required.

Does anyone else find this a little crazy?

What I want is to be able to restore the server to the state it was in when I last backed it up, which I would do daily. This pretty much requires imaging software. The built-in WHS backup does not appear to be able to do this. And I have not found a post anywhere that outlines a good strategy.

If I'm missing something obvious, please enlighten me. Barring that, can anyone point me to a post that does outline a good strategy? Do you have a strategy you can outline here? If not, I guess I'll have to prepare one myself, which is fine; I was just hoping not to re-invent the wheel if it's not necessary.

thanks for taking the time to read this post.

I can't believe this is right at the top of the list as I've come here to ask basically the same question. I run Perfect Disk on my WHS and it appears to have corrupted the system partion. I now need to restore that partion and then have the newly loaded system to recognise all thedate partitions on the other three drives. The drive with the system partiton also has a data prtition. I don't believe aI can do a system repair as I only have the original release disk. All power packs were downloaded. So given this how do I best recover my system without relaoding everything? I may be wrong but I'm under the impression that if I relaod the system it won'r recobnise the old data files so they are now useless. Going forward is there a better way to install WHS so that recoverery is earier?