If you're one of those who live with their laptop, share one of your secrets. How do you disguise the laptop when traveling, or do you? Do you have any anti-theft tricks you can share?
Backup for laptops, especially those laptops so well traveled they have their own passport, can be tricky. How do you backup? Do you use an online backup service, or wait until you hit the office? Or do you carefully save everything to a USB hard drive that you keep in the case with the laptop?
I know there are insurance companies covering laptops against loss or theft. Does your company buy insurance for laptops? Or do you cover the expensive executive laptops while self-insuring the less expensive worker laptops?
When I spoke to the NSTA in Houston early this month, I asked who had a laptop. Almost every hand went up. Then I asked who had two or more more laptops. Almost every hand stayed up. That's a lot of laptop love.
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Back Ups - Critical Data
I have an external drive mapped to my documents on my desktop. This is by default where I save all my critical data, including pst's. My Documents is set as offline and also mapped to my server so it is tape backed up at night. When I loging I synch to the server from the laptop/external drive. Laptop and drive travel in two seperate places. In the event one or both is lost I am covered. Once tape has run at night I also synch (from the server) to an external/offsite location. Synch time is minimal after the initial synchronization as the backup routine only back ups what has changed.
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