Try and have most data in the cloud (dropbox/live mesh/Amazon s3) and applications with cloud storage (google docs/basecamp/pivotal tracker).
I do carry a Windows 7 install disc and a 2.5" USB drive with all the various apps I need. (I code for .Net, so do require quite a few installed applications)
Total loss of a laptop while travelling would be a pain, but not insurmountable. Worse would be to lose the install media, but that's recoverable through MSDN, so given a day or two, would be up and running once more.
Would recommend having a virtual machine accessible from anywhere that you can fall back to if needed. That's saved my bacon a couple of times.
Comments
How do you guys deal with re-imaging a laptop in case the old one was lost? Do you keep an image online somewhere?
Try and have most data in the cloud (dropbox/live mesh/Amazon s3) and applications with cloud storage (google docs/basecamp/pivotal tracker).
I do carry a Windows 7 install disc and a 2.5" USB drive with all the various apps I need. (I code for .Net, so do require quite a few installed applications)
Total loss of a laptop while travelling would be a pain, but not insurmountable. Worse would be to lose the install media, but that's recoverable through MSDN, so given a day or two, would be up and running once more.
Would recommend having a virtual machine accessible from anywhere that you can fall back to if needed. That's saved my bacon a couple of times.