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Originally Posted by vugtitan
sorry to hear about the flood in your house.
did you not back them up?
you can back up to gmail or yahoo.they have 4 to 6 GIGS of free online storage.
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I'm also sorry to hear you had a flood issue and lost things. As I gave up film for digital when I bought a new camera when my daughter was born I was super worried about losing all those irreplaceable pictures. I got sick of storing all my CDs in the living room so I ripped them all to the computer and then boxed them up and stored them in the attic in case a hard copy was ever needed.
With all digital possessions I now back things up to an external harddrive and I subscribe to a backup service (I use Mozy). Costs about 5$ a month but it autobacks up any directories I tell it to and I have unlimited storage space.
Right now I think I'm backing up around 220 gigs of data.
I have never had to restore anything so I can't comment on how easy or well it will work but Mozy had good reviews. I can comment that the backup program works well and they have no problems taking 5$ out of my account each month.
Also, my firewall ended up blocking the program one day (therefore stopping the backups) and the company emailed me to let me know I hadn't backed up anything in 3 days and sent me steps to check my firewall settings. I thought that was nice.
As for my Kindle, I probably have about 25 full books on there (most of them daily freebies from Amazon) and probably 10 samples. Currently I am reading two of the books (one fiction and one non-fiction) and my wife is reading another book. The rest just sit there.