Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Way to store my master TM on cloud and access it with CAT
Poster: Patrick Porter
Post title: various ways
Assuming that your setup is typical and that the universe of possibilities where you want to store the TM has no limits, you could store it on a cloud volume (e.g. AWS) and set up a VPN on the cloud provider. That way you could map the volume as a network drive and access it via the internet.
A simpler way might be to use a service like MS OneDrive, which automatically maps to a local folder (at least in Windows 7; I can't figure out how to do this in Windows 8; hopefully they fix it in Windows 10). Then select the TM from that local folder and the service will keep the online and offline versions synchronized in the background (although this could be a performance hit). I imagine other file storage services have similar solutions.
There is also possibly an even simpler alternative. If you are going to have network access, you could keep your TMs and all other work materials on one machine (e.g. desktop) and use a remote desktop connection to that machine when using the other one (e.g. laptop), although that would require keeping both machines turned on at the same time, and probably a VPN connection or SSH tunnel when outside the LAN (i.e. when connecting via the internet).
Topic: Way to store my master TM on cloud and access it with CAT
Poster: Patrick Porter
Post title: various ways
Assuming that your setup is typical and that the universe of possibilities where you want to store the TM has no limits, you could store it on a cloud volume (e.g. AWS) and set up a VPN on the cloud provider. That way you could map the volume as a network drive and access it via the internet.
A simpler way might be to use a service like MS OneDrive, which automatically maps to a local folder (at least in Windows 7; I can't figure out how to do this in Windows 8; hopefully they fix it in Windows 10). Then select the TM from that local folder and the service will keep the online and offline versions synchronized in the background (although this could be a performance hit). I imagine other file storage services have similar solutions.
There is also possibly an even simpler alternative. If you are going to have network access, you could keep your TMs and all other work materials on one machine (e.g. desktop) and use a remote desktop connection to that machine when using the other one (e.g. laptop), although that would require keeping both machines turned on at the same time, and probably a VPN connection or SSH tunnel when outside the LAN (i.e. when connecting via the internet).