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Replace windows home server 2011 with acronis and a linux server?

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Hello,
I'm currently running a windows home server 2011 (WHS) with 4 TB on a RocketRaid controller. The windows home server hangs at least once a week and I'd like to replace it with a linux server. I used WHS because at the time, Acronis didn't support a compressed backup of a bitlockered windows 7 computer.
My questions are:
1. Can I used a linux server to store my backups and do a bare-metal restore of the computers on my (wireless) home network using the backup on the linux server?
2. Not critical, but can I do this if the backed up computer is bitlockered windows 7?
Thanks,
Joe

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What disk format were you thinking of using on the backup partition?

Whilst TIH recognises the Reieser and eXTfs, I'm not sure about image storing using those formats.

I think you'd also need SAMBA running in order for the Windows based TIH to see the Linux file system.

I know with the corporate ABR version the Linux server software allows what you want to do.

Hi Joe,

I'm running OpenFiler, which is a Linux based NAS distro. It works great, very reliable, and free. I created an smb/cifs volume, and use that as a backup target for ATIH. It was a little tricky to get OpenFiler set up, but I think it was worth the effort. I also created a webdav volume that I use to share my Outlook calendar.

In my case, OpenFiler is running as a guest under VMware ESXi 5. If you do that, you can use your server for other things too. I used physical drive mappings so that OpenFiler could manage the disk array.