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okay so this is going to be my next video on Windows Home Server and I'm gonna start going through the basics of how to make home server work for you so the first thing you're going to want to configure on your home server is computers and backups in this case I've only got one computer hooked up to my home server you can see right now it says the status is not backed up yeah if I could zoom in and focus I would be terrific right about now okay well anyway it says not backed up and what I'm going to do is I'm going to configure backup so welcome to the backup configuration wizard I click Next please wait while the wizard collects information about this computer what it's doing right now is it's finding out how many hard drives are on my computer how full it is and it's calculating how much space it will take on the home server etc etc choose the volumes that you want to backup so I'm gonna back up my system reserve volume as well as my C local disk you can add folders to exclude from the backup so by default it does not backup recorded TV user temporary files shadow volume hibernation file a few key things that does not backup the recycle bin folder so if there's anything you want it to not backup you can go ahead and add it here so it's got a whole list of all of the directories for example I don't need it to backup the ATI folder you know there's something I don't need it to backup I don't need it to backup the Nvidia folder so let's click Next congratulations you have successfully configured KPC to be backed up it was that simple so now I could run it back up now but the whole process will probably take about 20 minutes and I'd rather keep filming this video but you can also okay can figure back hold on a second the backup so yeah here's how you view the backups so from here you cannot you'll see a list of all the backups that you've created you can change settings for individual backups so you can set them to either be managed automatically which will be in your master settings which I can show you in a minute you can set it to keep this backup forever or delete it the next backup clean up now if you highlight one of the backups and click details you can actually browse the entire backup of your hard drive from this Windows Home Server console you can drag and drop files on to your desktop and it is a terrific way to get back you know your mom's Word document that she accidentally deleted because it will keep it will keep it for as long as you tell it to keep the backups so now we have figured that out so why don't I go and show you the backup settings and then we'll call that a video so backup time home computers are backed up during the backup time that's fairly self-explanatory so I'm gonna set mine to run from 3 a.m. because I definitely won't be awake at that time to 7 a.m. I'm never up that early so that's when it'll run all the backups here is the automatic backup management so when you say manage automatically these are the rules that will follow so I like to keep a good number of daily backups I don't particularly care about the weekly backups because I rarely go into those and then I like to keep a good number of monthly backups as well something about the backups though is that it does not use up the full like this computer has 100 gigs used on the drive it doesn't use up 100 gigs every time you backup it only reacts up the data that has actually changed so storing a bunch of backups of the same computer if you're not completely formatting and then refilling your hard drive with completely different stuff actually won't take up a ton of space there's also a button here to repair the backup database if it becomes corrupted this can happen if a hard drive fails but it's not a huge deal and then you can also clean up the database now to get rid of any backups but you don't want so I'm gonna click OK and that is how to configure backups on the Windows Home Server it's really quite simple