Alternative to Windows Home Server (WHS) backups

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Published on 2012-07-05T22:36:04Z Indexed on 2012/07/06 3:18 UTC
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Since Microsoft announced the end of life for WHS, are there any alternatives?

Specifically, I am interested in recovering from a catastrophic disk failure with WHS.

For example, this is my ideal scenario when a desktop hard-drive fails (has a bad virus, etc):

Install a disk of the same size or greater
Boot the desktop with the Recovery Disc
Point the recovery application at the WHS
Pick the machine, the drive(s) and the date of the backup
Have a couple beers
Reboot to a working machine as if nothing happened.

I would need to slap multiple disks in the machine without raid. It sounds like LVM will work here.

It would be nice, but not required to have de-duplication of files when multiple machines are backed up. (Single Instance Storage)

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