Just Forget the Backup
Sunday, June 29th, 2008I am a paperless worker. As a consequence my MacBook Pro is my permanent companion. I only leave home taking it with me. Without I am lost.
Over time quite some critical data got stored on my notebook. But frankly, I not making backups as seriously as I should. There has been a permanent risk to lose data. Installing and using Collanos Workplace rapidly reduced it!
But isn’t Apple’s Time Machine explicitely designed for this purpose? Yes, I work with it, but it just needs to much time and I need to launch on purpose sitting in the office.
How did Collanos reduce risk of data loss for me?
I installed “Collanos Workplace” both on my my notebook and on my desktop computer - as described on Collanos Forum, each installation used with an own “Collanos Name”. Collanos Workplace does not yet allow to use multiple installations with the same user name. Hint: Register one Collanos name for every installation of Collanos Workplace you run.
On my notebook I have quite a number of workspaces where I share data with the different teams I am member of. In each of these team spaces I invite my Desktop Collanos Workplace user. On the road I open my documents and notes from within Collanos Workplace, rather than from the harddisk or from within Mac’s Finder. As soon as I change a file, it is synchronized with my desktop. The same happens when I am in the office. Collanos Workplace is permanently keeping my computers’ data in sync.
This background replication works so well that I do not really need any additional backup anymore. Should something happen to the data on my notebook I just reinstall Collanos Workplace and invite my Notebook’s Workplace from the desktop into the team spaces again. And a little bit later all my data is back.
Isn’t that cool? It is so cool that I do rarely launch Time Machine - as before Collanos but now with much less risk - and if I do so, just to backup my emails. I am convinced that in the future Collanos will even support me in this task.
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