On the last morning of my recent business trip, I woke up in my hotel room and found that my laptop’s hard disk had quietly passed away in the dark of the night. Hoping that it was a mere filesystem error, I booted my machine up from an USB stick, but no luck. The 500-GB disk was dead as a brick with the data — some of it personal, some work-related — gone for good.
Tragedy, you think? Not quite!
I managed to get through the day without my laptop (smartphones are quite a smart invention, after all). On the next morning, I took my old laptop into the office, installed the VMware View client, and had my work desktop up and running by the time the coffee machine had finished brewing my first cup. And by the time I was ready to head for a refill, I had already restored the rest of my files from the backup I had made to a removable hard disk on the week before, as well as the latest changes from my daily cloud backup.
Of course, the story would’ve been rather different if I had had no backups, and if my employer had had no View.
Come to think about it — how much data and time would you lose if your main computer’s internal storage failed? If the answer is “too much”, then you should definitely talk to ByteLife. We might be able to help.