Rick Hallihan has some great ideas over on Blobservations about the dilemma a lot of us are dealing with, because we have multiple computers in the home. He list a whole bunch of features for a proposed Windows Home Server. I would like to narrow them down into one paragraph.
Lets say I have 5 windows computers at home all on the network. By a simple click in the network windows I designate which computers I want synchronized and press go. In that synchronize I want pictures, documents, pst files, download dir and any other data containing directory I designate and of course my desktop settings etc. Of course there should be a schedule option but I would be satisfied with “GO” It should take less than 5 minutes to setup and be so easy my grandmother could do it.
I have my computers organized and I know where my data is. I also have my data synchronized with 2 other machines plus a external hard-drive I rotate every month from my safe deposit box. But hey I am a geek and it’s still a plan. I should be able to sit down to any computer on my home network login and have my profile and all of my settings replicated before hand.
Think of all the people you would save from cursing the hardware gods when a hard-drive self destructs by making it easy.. Hey hard-drive space is cheap. I have 3 200 gig drives on the shelf empty because they were on sale for $59.95. I agree with Rick their has to be a better and easier way.
I’d buy a license as I wave my credit card above my head.. [Blobservations]