Not a whole lot has been going on lately with me on the HTPC/HT front.  I did get to install Windows 2008 Server on my NETSVR yesterday though.  I had been wanting to try it out, along with an x64 version, for a while now.  The install was painless and I’m really liking it so far.  Everything that I typically use (application-wise) installed without issue and it’s 100% as functional as it was running x86 2003 Server.  It’s a keeper for sure.

I also finally got tapes for my new (used) DAT drive.  Amazon had incorrectly listed their 5-pack and kept sending me a single tape for a 5-pack price, so I canceled and went with SuperMediaStore.  I got it cheaper there anyway.  I’m currently running a backup of all my photos, my wife’s work folder and our home videos using NovaBackup Professional.  I had first tried the built-in Windows backup with supported hardware compression, but it didn’t actually compress anything and was going to use up the full 31GB I needed to back up (40GB with compression is supported by this drive).  So, I figured I would try my copy of NovaBackup to see if its software compression would be any better.  If it is, I’ll stick with it since its more flexible than the built-in backup anyway.

I also had to redeploy my old Gateway Pentium III 933MHz box since 2008 Server does not support the old Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI card I’m running my DAT from.  It will be used strictly for tape backups, so I’m going to look for a way to set it up for WOL since it only needs to run when I’m doing a differential.  It already had 2003 Server on it from when I was using it as my VPN server, so that made things much easier for me.

Other than that, the only other thing I did was add the replaced Seagate 500GB drive to my unRAID server and I bumped the memory up to 3GB – adding a couple of 512MB modules I had laying around (I had 4, but only two slots left).  I’d like to get it to 4GB, but it can wait.