You can use LAlarm laptop alarm to recover data on a stolen laptop. The following steps configure LAlarm to upload data from your laptop to your online storage account in case of laptop theft.
- Install LAlarm.
- Enable account lockout: Run Setup > Click Options link > Lockout tab > Configure link. Or see the LAlarm manual for enabling account lock and auditing policy.
- Sign up for an online storage account at
DriveHQ (http://www.drivehq.com/secure/FreeSignUp.aspx?from=ftp) - Install WINSCP (http://winscp.net)
- Configure firewalls not to block WINSCP.
- After running notepad, copy and paste the following contents into the notepad.option batch on
option confirm off
open ftp://username: -passive
put c:\mydoc\*.*
exit - Substitute username, password with your own username and password at DriveHQ. Also replace c:\mydoc with your own folder name that you wish to recover.
- Save the file as c:\upload.txt (or any other folder of your choice.)
- Run LAlarm Setup program.
- Click Options
- Select Theft Response tab.
- Enter “c:\program files\winscp\winscp.com” /script=c:\upload.txt in the input box. Note the file c:\upload.txt must be the same one that you created in the step 8.
- Press OK or Apply button.
Note:
- The data retrieval will occur when an account is locked out. For example, a thief attempted to logon to your account with incorrect passwords for a number of times.
- There is an alternative way to recover data, see also article 5.
- In this article, DriveHQ and WinSCP are used. But you can substitute them with your own favorite storage service and file transfer program.
- If you have important data on your laptop, you should backup the data daily. This data recovery function is not intended to substitute the daily backup.
- Please read the LAlarm product manual before using LAlarm. The LAlarm manual is accessible by pressing the [Help] button in the LAlarm setup program.
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