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1. CAB
   Member

   My setup is that I have two desk top Windows 7 computers on a Home Network with a
   LinkSys WRT54G router. I wish to back to hard drive on each computer so that I can restore
   after a disk failure and have the ability to restore any files that might get damaged separately.

   I want to swap out the hard drive daily and store it in my Fire Safe. This would mean that I have
   to rotate two hard drives at a minimum.

   Can I attach a Docking Station to my Router or to one of the computers and purchase two 2.0 TB
   hard drives to back up the computers on. Maybe two partitions on the drive? I assume I will need
   to purchase two copies of Rebit, one for each computer.

   Is that a workable solution with Rebit? Easy to install & set up?
   My computers do not have a USB3 but plenty of USB2.
   The router has one spare Ethernet connection and is wireless as well.

   Posted 10 months ago #

2. CAB
   Member

   OK, I purchased a HD docking station with eSATA attached to my computer. Sharing it on the network. Windows backs up to it fine on my machine. The other computer will not backup using Windows backup but I can see the drive with file explorer. Looks like Home Premium will not allow this.

   Posted 10 months ago #

3. Arjan
   Member

   Indeed, the built-in Windows 7 Backup and Restore in Home Premium does not support networked drives. See point 4 in my self-answered Why choose Rebit 5 over Windows 7 backup?

   But: you're asking about Rebit, right? I've only used Rebit with rotating disks on a FRITZ!Box router that gives each disk a unique share name, and that works fine. (At least, it uses different share names for different disk types, like \\fritz.box\WD-MyPassport071A-01; it might use the same name for identical disks?)

   I don't know if Rebit would recognize disks being swapped if the share name would not change.

   Posted 10 months ago #

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