[thelist] single user virtual dektop

Christopher Marsh Christopher.Marsh at akqa.com
Sat Aug 13 05:13:13 CDT 2011


Hi Casey

I use VMWare virtual machines for development, and all my data is either online (Github, Dropbox) or on a RAIDed NAS at home, available externally via VPN. The virtual machines are backed up on the NAS, so I'm pretty immune to hardware failure.

HTH

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Christopher Marsh 

On 13 Aug 2011, at 06:55, Simon MacDonald wrote:

> Router attached nas is what I use. Fine until my router packed up earler this week.  :(
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> Simon
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> Subject: [thelist] single user virtual dektop
> Date: Sat, Aug 13, 2011 1:17 am
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> On 2011/08/12 15:51 (GMT-0500) Casey Crookston composed:
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>> I can't be the only person who has looked for this service before.  Does anyone know of such a service?
> 
> No. But this may be a good case for NAS, an external HD plugged into your router, which hopefully is in a safer location than your laptop seems to frequent.
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