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I posted previously about the FolderShare service and was not sure that I would use it on a large scale. Recently I had a laptop hard drive fail so I performed a manual P2V of my operating system into a VMware virtual machine. I installed FolderShare on the VM and had it running on my server as well to replicated everything in My Documents. I figured that it would be a good idea to keep a running instant backup in case something happened. I also had FolderShare running on the original laptop to keep things synced because the hard drive would work but occasionally would fail and I was not sure if I was going to keep the VM for the long term. Anyway, I’ve been using the VM exclusively because it works so well. Yesterday I was trying to clean house with all the snapshots and VMs I have and inadvertently switched to a different snapshot of my working old laptop image before taking another snapshot. What this meant is that all my edits to documents and my Quicken transactions were rolled back to that previous snapshot. I was bummed, then I thought about FolderShare, aha! I had all the previous edits on another system (the server) so I had a complete backup available. I booted the VM and logged in. I looked at the FolderShare activity log and found that it had replicated the modified files from the server back to the VM, I was up to date! No data loss, thanks FolderShare. I also have a full backup each day but that would only cover changes since the last backup. FolderShare replicates changes each time a file is modified. Both methods have their advantages so having both keeps my data safe.