Time Traveler for Windows Home Server
Posted on 11. Dec, 2009 by Terry Walsh in Home Server Administration
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Experience Level: Standard
Time Traveler for Windows Home Server allows a user to create roll-back points for changed files in any shared folder on the home server. Through the Windows Home Server Console, users can roll-back a file or folder to any point in time.
That means if you ever overwrite a file in your shared folders by accident, then you can simply restore it!
Developer: Time Traveler
Release History
v1.2 (11th December 2009)
New Features:
- Selectable rollback target folder – rollback directly to the original Share/folder or a separate cache folder
- Rollback version finder – easy viewing of rollback points to find time/date of the file you want to rollback. A more informative selection of files/folders during rollbacks
- Updated status display – now easier to view the current action being performed by Time Traveler; Online, Updating database, Updating Folder List, and Expired Trial
Bug fixes:
- Set full read/write permissions for all WHS users when creating the “Time Traveler Rollbacks” share during installation
- Fixed selection of deep folders within the Rollback Single File selector
- Fixed apparent hang when selecting a Share containing many files/folders. i.e WHS Console could become unresponsive for a few minutes
- Fixed installer failure on some Power Pack 2 and Power Pack 3 systems
v1.0 (1st December 2009)
- Initial release
JPINSL
02. Dec, 2009
Just last week I was working on an important spreadsheet when MS Excel warned “file cannot be saved”. Since I’d just opened it, I closed and tried to reopen.
The file was gone! Poof. No more spreadsheet.
I’ll give this a go as a insurance policy.
Sunscreen
15. Dec, 2009
This is only for people with HP MediaSmarts, since those are not enabled for VolumeShadowCopy. Others wont need this since the feature is allready on their server.
This might however solve some peoples headache, as long as it doesnt hog up too much resources whilst copying files. (the product does not work like the VSC on bit-by-bit level)
Dave Marchant
28. Jan, 2010
Volume Shadows do not work for anyone who installed with PP1 or later within the WHS installation, only for those with an original OEM release. Volume Shadows are not reliable enough anyway