Emma and Ewan's World

As Suzanne has mentioned previously, our neglecting to back up our hard drive has caused a fair amount of stress. Yesterday was day 11 since Gillware received the hard drive and we had received no word on its status. So yesterday, I made one of the most stressful calls in recent memory. The good news is that there is no news yet, and that the customer service rep thinks we will have a file list of what can be recovered in the next couple of days. So the hand wringing continues...

If you have an interest in backing up *your* data, and have bouts of laziness that keep you from driving to the store to pick up a ton of DVDs so you can get over 200GB of information all backed up, I recommend this little beauty. The windows home server software will back up every Windows based computer in your home every night so that you can completely recover your information should something go wrong. It is expandable to 4 internal hard drives and it has the ability to attach external hard drives too. You don't have to have a monitor, keyboard, etc. to get it running, just another computer in the home running Windows XP or better. And for the geeks out there, you can hack the heck out of it... www.homeserverhacks.com is a great start for just some of the stuff you can do.