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Would the police in this case still provide a police report? Maybe that + insurance could cover a new laptop. It's so easy to backup everything for free these
by kylehotchkiss 9y ago
Would the police in this case still provide a police report? Maybe that + insurance could cover a new laptop.
It's so easy to backup everything for free these days. Google Drive/Dropbox if you don't care about encryption or Arq.app if you do, Time Machine if you have a spare hard drive at home.
- dalore 9y agoThe article says insurance only paid £500.
- gruez 9y ago>It's so easy to backup everything for free these days. Google Drive/Dropbox if you don't care about encryption those let you back up maybe 50GB (if you abuse all the promos), which is pretty small.
- CoachRufus87 9y agoUse Arq, backup to Backblaze storage, and pay $0.005/GB/month. That 50 GB would cost $0.25 a month. If you can afford a MacBook, you can afford an encrypted cloud backup of your HD.
- jethro_tell 9y agoI think that once you've paid for enough school, you can't afford not to backup your dissertation.
- gowld 9y agoYou travel with 50GB of original content for personal use?
- dharma1 9y agoif you shoot lots of 4k video or raw photos, you can easily burn through a couple of 64gb sd cards on travels
- bdcravens 9y agoInsurance will pay in a few weeks, and odds are you need your machine before then. (Maybe tomorrow depending on the nature of travel) We're not talking a home break-in; we're talking a process where it was in your possession, you're required to go through a government mandated process, and the result of the process means your property only a few feet away was stolen, within a couple of minutes. If I had to replace that machine, we're talking hundreds of dollars (or more) a day in lost productivity, plus the lost productivity when restoring my backup.