Re:Ask HN: My house might burn down in the next 24 hours. Su...
by bspn on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:15AM
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This is great advice, which surprisingly few people follow.
A few years back I scanned all of our personal records, tax returns, visas, dog vaccinations etc and created a dedicated Box account with a Google Drive backup. It was a massive undertaking at the time, but now whenever we receive something new it's a pretty painless task to scan it and upload it to cloud storage.
An added bonus is that after years of stockpiling paper we now have virtually no paper records anymore other than the things that absolutely have to be: passports, SSNs, birth certificates etc.
Re:Ask HN: My house might burn down in the next 24 hours. Su...
by akuji1993 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:43AM
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The moment there's a longer blackout, you guys are out in the open. Nice.
Re:Ask HN: My house might burn down in the next 24 hours. Su...
by literallycancer on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:38AM
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Flickr has 1TB free for photos.
Re:Ask HN: My house might burn down in the next 24 hours. Su...
by Can_Not on Thursday October 12, 2017 @01:57PM
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https://mega.nz/ does 50GB free
Data is easily saved by uploading to cloud storage, preferably more than one service. You should already be doing this, Google Drive is 15GB free, Dropbox is 2GB free. Usually that's enough for the most important documents. Google Photos has unlimited storage as long as your pictures are 16MP or less.
I'll admit that I don't have an overview of my irreplaceable items. Maybe I should do a mental list when I get home today.