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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1419176" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>Great Article - and timely. My entire state seems to be on fire</p><p><a href="http://www.koaa.com/home/" target="_blank">KOAA.com | Continuous News Coverage | Colorado Springs, Colorado | Pueblo, Colorado</a></p><p><a href="http://www.9news.com/" target="_blank">9NEWS.com | Denver | Colorado's online news leader | Breaking news, headlines, weather, sports, business and more.</a></p><p>Consider donating to the Colorado Red Cross</p><p><a href="http://www.denver-redcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?SN=200&OP=210&id=12198&IDCapitulo=Q4Q26NY21N" target="_blank">American Red Cross Colorado Chapters - News - News</a></p><p>There are many structures lost to 2 fires - one north near Fort Collins and one in Colorado Springs.</p><p></p><p>I think one of the key pieces is off site backup. As these fires show - you could be made to evacuate in an instant. You may not have time to even grab your stuff. The online backup is good - if you have the bandwidth to upload that much stuff. It doesn't have to be a pure - backup site like Mozy either. For example - I have a flickr pro account for $25/year - and upload all pictures to Flickr. (I bought an Eye-Fi card which makes it even easier to upload everything to Flickr). I keep most documents in Dropbox so they are always on the cloud and on every device I use.</p><p></p><p>Another way to backup offsite - is other disks. I keep a USB disk onsite at my work. When I go to the office - I attach it to my computer and run a backup. It isn't as up to date as my home backup but losing a month is better than losing everything. My buddy and I exchange Hard Drives with Pictures on them as another backup. I have a set of his pictures and I give him a set of mine - and we trade disks every now and then and update them.</p><p></p><p>I've mentioned this before - but another thing you could do is run a raid server - and swap disks periodically. You could put the disks in a safe deposit box or somewhere else off site.</p><p></p><p>Independent of digital data - another good thing to do is make photocopies of your most important documents and send them to someone you trust. (Birth Certificates, titles, stocks, etc)</p><p></p><p>EDIT:You're on your own check list</p><p><a href="http://bcc.elpasoco.com/Documents/YOYO%20Reference%20Sheet.pdf" target="_blank">http://bcc.elpasoco.com/Documents/YOYO Reference Sheet.pdf</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1419176, member: 145676"] Great Article - and timely. My entire state seems to be on fire [url=http://www.koaa.com/home/]KOAA.com | Continuous News Coverage | Colorado Springs, Colorado | Pueblo, Colorado[/url] [url=http://www.9news.com/]9NEWS.com | Denver | Colorado's online news leader | Breaking news, headlines, weather, sports, business and more.[/url] Consider donating to the Colorado Red Cross [url=http://www.denver-redcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?SN=200&OP=210&id=12198&IDCapitulo=Q4Q26NY21N]American Red Cross Colorado Chapters - News - News[/url] There are many structures lost to 2 fires - one north near Fort Collins and one in Colorado Springs. I think one of the key pieces is off site backup. As these fires show - you could be made to evacuate in an instant. You may not have time to even grab your stuff. The online backup is good - if you have the bandwidth to upload that much stuff. It doesn't have to be a pure - backup site like Mozy either. For example - I have a flickr pro account for $25/year - and upload all pictures to Flickr. (I bought an Eye-Fi card which makes it even easier to upload everything to Flickr). I keep most documents in Dropbox so they are always on the cloud and on every device I use. Another way to backup offsite - is other disks. I keep a USB disk onsite at my work. When I go to the office - I attach it to my computer and run a backup. It isn't as up to date as my home backup but losing a month is better than losing everything. My buddy and I exchange Hard Drives with Pictures on them as another backup. I have a set of his pictures and I give him a set of mine - and we trade disks every now and then and update them. I've mentioned this before - but another thing you could do is run a raid server - and swap disks periodically. You could put the disks in a safe deposit box or somewhere else off site. Independent of digital data - another good thing to do is make photocopies of your most important documents and send them to someone you trust. (Birth Certificates, titles, stocks, etc) EDIT:You're on your own check list [url]http://bcc.elpasoco.com/Documents/YOYO%20Reference%20Sheet.pdf[/url] [/QUOTE]
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