However, I noticed last week that at some point WHS2011 had an issue more than a month ago where it no longer was backing up ANY of the Windows PCs in our house (2 laptops, 2 desktops).<\/p>\n
No actionable errors had occurred in March that I could find, so I can\u2019t pinpoint a reason. I needed to go to every Windows PC in our house and re-enable backups. Thankfully, it didn\u2019t need to start over from scratch (it picked up where it left off). <\/p>\n
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Needless to say, having your computer backups silently fail is a bit worrisome. As many WHS2011 users likely don\u2019t routinely go to the WHS dashboard \u2013 you might want to occasionally and check that every thing is OK.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t use the LAUNCHPAD much as it tends to be the \u201csoftware who cried wolf\u201d too often. But, even if I had, I couldn\u2019t see any indication in the Dashboard that I would have been alerted to this issue (since alerts are all saved until resolved or ignored).<\/p>\n
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(The two warnings shown in the screenshot are for: \u201cImportant updates should be installed.\u201d and \u201cFree space is low.\u201d AKA, A drive has only 62GB free (10%)).<\/p>\n
If you do use the LAUNCHPAD, you can verify the last backup by clicking the \u201cBackup\u201d button. You should see something like this in the dialog that is opened:<\/p>\n
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This is just a reminder to anyone who uses Windows Home Server\u2019s Backup functionality to verify Backups are working. I love the \u201cturn it on and forget about it\u201d feature of WHS backup. Computers automatically wake, backup, and sleep. Nice. 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