- Dec 14, 2009
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My mother-in-law's laptop is getting ready to eat the HDD inside, and I just discovered she has never backed it up. No big deal, but her entire digital life is on it (quicken, taxes, many many gigs of photos, music, and home movies). I've got the data saved for now, but she wants to add something that is a little more secure to store her data.
I'm not a stranger to setting up a computer as a server, but it seems overkill to store documents. Would a ready made NAS be better/easier/cheaper? I live 100 miles from her, so I'd rather it be something that I won't have to worry much about since she is clueless. Can I admin an NAS from my house like I can a windows computer with TeamViewer.
Not to make things too hard, but she wants to add a tablet of sorts to her life. I know a windows one would access a NAS or server, but would an iPad see either (that way she can run quicken if she was too lazy to find her laptop).
I'm not a stranger to setting up a computer as a server, but it seems overkill to store documents. Would a ready made NAS be better/easier/cheaper? I live 100 miles from her, so I'd rather it be something that I won't have to worry much about since she is clueless. Can I admin an NAS from my house like I can a windows computer with TeamViewer.
Not to make things too hard, but she wants to add a tablet of sorts to her life. I know a windows one would access a NAS or server, but would an iPad see either (that way she can run quicken if she was too lazy to find her laptop).
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