Owner manual

Start Using Your Server

Shared Folders—Add, open, remove, and view the properties of the shared folders on your server.

For more information, see Shared Folders in the Windows Home Server Console Help.

• Server Storage—View, add, repair, and remove hard drives from server storage. For more

information, see Server Storage in the Windows Home Server Console Help.

• Network—Displays health notifications from your server and your home computers. For more

information, see Network Health in the Windows Home Server Console Help.

• Settings—Configure general settings, such as date and time, backups, passwords, media sharing,

remote access, add-ins, resources, and more. For more information, see Server Settings in the

Windows Home Server Console Help.

• Help—Access the Windows Home Server Console Help.

FIRST STEPS

PC Backup and Restore

After running the Software Installation Disc on a computer it is automatically added to the list of

computers that are backed up by the HP Data Vault each night. The entire computer is backed up

by default.

Complete the following steps to customize the hard drive volumes to back up, or to exclude

folders from the backup.

1. At the PC, double-click the Windows Home Server icon

in the system tray and log on.

At the Mac, select Launch Home Server Console from the Server menu

2. Click the Computers & Backups tab.

3. Select a computer and click Configure Backup.

Follow the instructions in the Backup Configuration Wizard.