NAS is mainly a network server who store data... my own computer is with a server board... why duplicate the work ? I have enough toom for add more HD if i wish... the cheap NAS are good for computer was have very few place for add a hardrive in intern... or for little network who share data...

Maybe the method used on my work is somehow the best... network ( using windows OS ) connected to a server ( using windows server version )... server itself connected on a low end computer running linux and only used for connect on the internet... in some way, the low end computer is a first stage control... if something append, the server simply cut the connection until all is again ok on the linux box... by the way, the Linux box have a strong firewall, and is running several antivirus in the same time...

Malware was, is and will remain a problem for computer... it is like spam, it will never end... since no one OS or software is 100% bullet proof, it will always someone who will find a security hole...

In some case, it is material related... i remember having read about a virus who lock down your harddrive with a random password... at the hardware level... no more read/write access unless you have some special material for crack your own drive... for usual people, the only solution is buy a new drive...

Oh yes. At my college some assholes were trying to be funny and put BIOS passwords on the public workstations. I guess they cost the college a lot of money..

Yes, my A/V detected the virus, but I couldn't be bothered to let it do its stuff. It's so much easier to restore from backup, that's why I have them! Safer too.

If I wasn't so lazy I would have set up extra profiles in SyncBack to copy my games folders. Losing a few saved games is no biggie though. There was only one Sins game I hadn't finished, a tough one against 7 unfair AIs - won't miss that one...

...Your logic is clear...4 they say "a man who fails 2 plan, plans to fail"...

and if a pic is worth a 1000 words, what is a byte worth......?.....Priceless

lol nerd humor

I plan to have to reinstall someday.  No big loss.  Backups would be a hassle that would be for minimal gain.

Perhaps someday I'll feel differently, but I've never had equipment fail on me.  (Well, except for a video card or two...)

Either you have'nt been using a computer for long or you're really lucky.

Keep in mind that there are two types of hard drives, ones that have failed and ones that will fail.

That's one of the reasons I don't use Maxtor drives. I've had four fail on me and that's too many. Now I use Hitachi and have not had a single problem (yet... they all go eventually )

yngmon this is not THe Beginning, it is not the end. It could be the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Whichever, it is a passage between realities... an open door through which to step - or not.

A passage between Windows as it is, and Windows as it can be - are you ready for the next level?

An alternate reality...

Been using a computer for 24 years now.  I have had some data loss situations, but they're so infrequent they haven't bothered me.  Investing in the hardware to backup, what, the savegames I'll lose?

Doesn't seem that important.  If I actually had any important data, I'd look into it.

OK....maybe after 24 years you'll grow out of just gaming...and open up an Office app....you know, for commercial/employment/business/livelihood....and actually have a reason to lament data loss....

Even if you have no full disk backups, a re-install is still quite a bit faster than scouring the hard disks with various different scanners.  Programs can be re-installed, and data can be restored.  But time is something that you can't get back without violating the laws of physics.

Then again, I thought I'd be dead by 30 and that didn't happen, so *shrug*

My comment was more directed at the implication that those who don't backup are all fools.  Some have valid reasons for not needing to.

Once I get to the point where I need to backup, I'll buy a WHS machine and call it a day.

That was the '24 years'....one would 'hope' by NOW you had actually made business-use of a computer and thus valued backups.

It's an irrefutable, undeniable fact that IF you do not back up.....you WILL live to regret it.

Eventually.

I know.  I was joking.  I recognize it didn't show.    Sarcasm on the internet and all that fun stuff.

I'll take my chances, until I actually have something worth backing up.  Which may never happen.

And actually, I did make business use of a computer, all of which was transacted over the internet.  I can't really backup someone elses system, so there you go.