"divoch" <divoch@REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I do not think many home users will have UPS at home just
> to backup a home computer.

It all depends on how much you value your time and/or data. I will tell
you this, though. Sooner or later, if you don't take all the steps you can
to safeguard your systems, you *will* regret it. A UPS is belt and braces,
but sometimes one of the two will fail and your trousers will fall down..!

> If you backup your important files regularly to an
> external hard drive you will not
> loose much if your computer hard drive fails which also
> happened to me. I can live once in
> quite a few years with retyping one or two documents I
> have just done and lost.

If it's just data, then possibly. I lost half the system files of a very
important program that was involved in networking together several other
machines across the country. Data flow on the link was out for three days.

As I said, never again.

Your risk, your decision, but don't blame me if you make the wrong one.


Ivor

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