How not to store data: a lesson

We all get lazy. Right? [Well maybe not Keith]. Storing files locally on our desktop or laptop. Only maintaining one copy of them. Hoping that nothing happens to the drive, or the machine gets stolen. Right? Are you with me so far? Well, for a while I was maintaining a little linux R2-UNIT (my nickname) for Windows Samba shares. It would do its thing at night, archive itself so i can roll back X amount of days, etc. It was working dandy, but the machine was a beast. Pentium II, power hog, desk hog, and I just got annoyed maintaining it. I get to tinker at work all day, sometimes at home, I just want to forget about all that fun stuff. So, needless to say, I got lazy, and started to store it all locally and not really even think of occasionally transferring it to the other machine. That would mean, I would have to turn it on, which became a chore in itself. This coincided well with when I got my digital camera. Therefore, my photos were all on my deskt...