On 2007-01-09, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
> Will bad backups doom Windows Home Server?
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>| Microsoft just announced it's working on Windows Home Server, which
>| among other features, will automatically back up files on all PCs in
>| the home. But if the product uses the same kind of brain-dead backup
>| built into Windows Vista, this is a product that will be dead on arrival.
>|
>| The backup tool built into Windows Vista may be the worst utility
>| every packed into an operating system. It doesn't allow you to back
>| up individual files, folders or even file types. Instead, you have to
>| back up every single file and folder of broad generic types.
>|
>| For example, if you want to back up a single picture, you have to back
>| up every single graphic of every graphic file type on your entire PC,
>| including all the graphics that Vista itself uses. This means you can
>| be forced to back up hundreds of gigabytes of files if you only want
>| to back up a few family photos.
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> http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/4303
How can this be?? There's *video* that shows how wonderful it is! You
can't fool cameras. Right? Or Windolts?
> Time to grin, Peter.
>
> The village fool will run away.
If they make the free backup work, few will need the new product. If
they screw up the free one, few will want the new one because they
won't trust it.
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Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right.
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