You then have to decide if you want to restore a full drive or just certain files or folders.
If you select files or folders you will need to drill down through the list of available folders and files and select what you want.
Then just click next.
You can then choose to restore to the original location or to a location of your choice. If you choose to restore to the original location then you have the option to create a copy so you have both versions of the file or to replace the file. Then just click next.
Just confirm everything is fine and click the Restore Now button.
Depending on the size of the recovery, it could take some time, so be patient.
And that’s it!
Here is a short video showing server and folder recovery in action:
So what do you think of this new functionality?
Why not give Windows Home Server 2011 a try, it’s available now on Microsoft Connect to download.
Download Windows Home Server 2011 from Microsoft Connect
This is developing like a bad comedy. First no DE, now It seems that Vail (called now Home Server 2011) is even bigger screwed-up than I thought. Ya, you can now install 3TB in server, but you cannot really use 3TB ! WHS automatically "downgrade" 3TB hardrives to 2Tb partitions because Vail is not able to make backup of WHS drives if they are larger than 2TB. So, even if you have 10TB RAID5, you have to partition it into 2TB chunks max. I wonder how you are going to backup multiTB PCs to 2TB chunks?
Ity seems that Microsoft lately produce just failure after failure to consumer home market. No wonder that Apple and everybody else has a free raid.
Good question ! Sounds like this is going to be the Windows ME of the server world
Just read this article, and am I missing somehting…???
I assumed that a server rstore would allow you in the even of drive failure, to simply restore your server.. but your info suggest you do this via the dashboard.. if my server is dead, I have no dashboard…
Surely I dont have to clean install WHS first, then do a restore????
The server recovery recovers the base server (not the same as clean install), if you want to restore folders you use the dashboard.
These are two different recovery procedures, and obviously rely on you having backed everything up first as well.