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A Cloud Migration Tool To Help Achieve Work-Life Balance?
By Ed Clark
Published 16 May 2025
If you’re starting a data migration (or have one on the horizon), you’re likely looking at long days, evenings at the office and/or weekends erased from the calendar. You may be unwilling to sacrifice whatever degree of work-life balance you’ve fought to achieve, which means you’re going to need some solid migration tools.
Sometimes, small things can cause big problems. Ask anyone who’s ever tangled with a jellyfish or a fire ant. In a migration, you may have vast amounts of data, different types of data, and data of varying importance, all of which needs to be moved from point A to point B. That’s all fine and dandy, and there are a ton of tools to help you achieve that, or you can engage a stress-busting migration architect.
Sometimes, small things can cause big problems. Ask anyone who’s ever tangled with a jellyfish or a fire ant.
But there’s one seemingly small detail — commonly overlooked — contained in most of your data (it’s often abundant in your financial data) that can derail your project. Derail? If it’s something small, how bad can the damage be? Well, that depends on how you feel about downtime, data loss, user complaints and the loss of your evenings and weekends.
A fire ant is tiny yet causes massive aggravation — a bit like links that break during migration.
Links, baby, we’re talking links. It might sound crazy, but we’re talking about those little critters, hidden in your data, that break as soon as the data gets moved or renamed. They’re like lemmings. They buy a one-way ticket off the cliff edge with no consideration for the clean-up operation they force you to engage in. Little bast… well, you know.
Best-Case Scenario vs. The Domino Effect
In an ideal world, you’ll have realized — before your migration — that you have a ton of links and that you need a way to protect them. If you were lucky enough to have LinkFixer Advanced™ among your selection of migration tools, you know just how much time it saved you — while eliminating missing data due to broken links, which, of course, means nothing one less thing for the users to complain about, which means you aren’t drowning in service tickets, which means you get out of the office exactly when you want to.
But what if you didn’t know about LinkFixer Advanced before your migration? What if you’re caught in the middle of a total, um, well, circus (trying to be work appropriate here)? Well, once you get over the fact that the domino effect is real, you’ll be dealing with the data loss, downtime, user complaints, and disgruntled bosses that broken links can cause. And eating dinner at your desk. Sigh.
One seemingly small detail — commonly overlooked — that is contained in most of your data (it’s often abundant in your financial data) can derail your project.
Frankly, we’d rather jive with a jellyfish.
What Can LinkFixer Advanced Do for You?
This little beauty has you covered from so many different angles, you’ll never want to be without it again.
Pre-Migration Protection
Before you start your migration (which triggers that lemming rush), protect your links with LinkFixer Advanced. Then, go ahead and perform your migration using the migration tool of your choice. Once your migration is complete, run LinkFixer Advanced again and delight in the fact that there’s not a single broken link. That means no missing data, no downtime, no user complaints, no grumpy bosses and no working late to manually find and fix broken links.
Post-Migration Disaster Recovery
A migration consultant can help reduce your stress.
Suppose you didn’t know about LinkFixer Advanced before your migration and you’re now faced with missing data, downtime, complaints and bosses giving you dirty looks. Don’t worry about it. You can still recover and emerge as the migration hero. LinkFixer Advanced’s post-migration feature can rapidly find and fix all your broken links, instantly restoring the missing data.
As if the above two options weren’t comprehensive enough to cover most scenarios, there’s also a third option.
The Magic Mover
Another way to use LinkFixer Advanced is to have it move and rename your files and folders for you. The magic here is that it can do this while automatically maintaining all your working links in the process. No data loss due to broken links or the downtime that they can cause. Just a smooth transition from A to B.
Run LinkFixer Advanced and delight in the fact that there’s not a single broken link.
Let It Work for You — Prophylactically
Eagle-eyed insight can help detect problems before they occur.
(That means “preventively”.) There’s one more scenario that’s worth mentioning because it’s a real time saver for you. Users sometimes like to move or rename folders without thinking about the consequences of their actions. Naturally, this breaks any links contained in those files or folders.
Later, when they click on a link and get a big fat nothing, they come to you (as though it’s your fault) to fix the problem. Running LinkFixer Advanced as part of your regular maintenance routine protects your links from the users, which means you never need to spend time manually finding and fixing the links they broke. LinkFixer Advanced stays on top of it and does the work for you.
The Big Question Right Now Is...
Do you know how many links are embedded in your data? Do you know where they’re located? Do you know what their status is — working or broken? Do you know how to get answers to all these questions — fast?
The best solution is Link Reporter™ — an unbeatable link-checking tool that offers detailed reports on the status of your links, enterprise-wide. Not only does it give you eagle-eyed insight, but it also offers unlimited scans and no expiry date. And did I mention that it’s free?
Alternatively, you can request a free trial of the full-featured LinkFixer Advanced, which includes Link Reporter.
LinkFixer Advanced protects your links from the users, which means you never need to spend time manually finding and fixing the links they broke.
If you have questions, chat with us online at LinkTek.com, email us at LinkMail@LinkTek.com or give us a call at 727-442-1822. Then, get out of the office, knowing that you have the solution you were seeking, right at your fingertips. See? Work-life balance doesn’t have to be hard!
Ed Clark
LinkTek COO
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