How To Recover Data On Stolen
Laptop with LAlarm laptop alarm
You can use LAlarm laptop alarm to recover data on
a stolen laptop. The following steps configure LAlarm to transfer your data to your gmail 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.
- Run LAlarm Setup > Click Options link > Theft Response tab.
- Copy and paste the the following in the input
box.
"c:\program
files\lalarm\lmail.exe" me@gmail.com password "mydata" /a:"c:\mydata.zip"
-
Substitute me@gmail.com and password with your gmail
email address and password. Also replace C:\mydata.zip with your
own file that
you wish to recover.
- Press OK or Apply button.
Note:
- The file will be emailed to your email account when
an account is locked out. For
example, a thief attempted to logon to your account with
incorrect
passwords for a number of times.
- You can also recover multiple files or folders. If you
wish to recover all the files in c:\mydoc folder, enter the following
in the step 6:
cmd /c "c:\uploadall.bat"
And then create a file c:\uploadall.bat with the following contents:
for
%%A in ("c:\mydoc\*.*") do "c:\program files\lalarm\lmail"
me@gmail.com password "upload all files in the folder" /a:"%%A"
You
must replace the underlined text with your own account information. - Due
to the gmail restriction, individual file size should be less than 25MB and
the total file size can not exceed more than 6Gbytes. Some other
restriction may exist. If you need to recover a large amount of data,
see
the
article 9.
- 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.
Article ID: 5, Last
Updated: Sep 23
, 2009
