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Originally Posted by Steven Karp
I'd find that argument a lot more convincing if the backup to the NAS didn't work perfectly on Windows and Linux. ;-)
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Using a NAS or share location direct in an application (that's not a network aware or file transfer application) can work fine on Windows or Linux till the day it doesn't. So on Windows Visual Basic using ODBC to MS-SQL on another computer is fine, but Visual Basic using ODBC to Access Files on Drive H:, where H: is really a network share will sooner or later die. Fun stuff even with MS Word or Excel using a network share rather than really local files, though it can work for ages.
So I only use remote files for years now with file managers, filezilla, rsync etc., never directly in an application on Linux or Windows. Many of my application on Linux don't even show locations mounted off the LAN, but only local drives (inc USB Mass Storage and SD Cards).