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Community weekly poll: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster?
- 6/27/06 12:13 PM
How will you survivors obtain this information if you die?
by sfmiller - 6/28/06 10:35 AM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
While thinking about having your data protected, please also consider that you are dead or incapacitated by the disaster. Your family or executor will still need this information.
My approach is to keep all account numbers and PINs and URLs in an encrypted spreadsheet and include that spreadsheet in my routine backups. I periodically provide a backup disk to my sister (500 miles away, our living trust executor) and have walked her through how to access the encrypted data and accounts.
I keep paper copies of all insurance and tax filings at work; but scanning them into PDFs is excellent idea. I keep latest backup thumb drive (encrypted) and disk at work. As IT person, offsite backup is 2nd nature.
I am best protected
by Lic. Alejandro González F - 6/28/06 11:11 AM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
Yes, I get two external HD and two Zip disks, so on, all my documents are keepped at external disks, and for more protection, my PC has installed Symantec Norton Ghost, and with this program I'm very well insuranced, but additionally, all my data is safe in external storage.
DATA Retrieval after a disaster
by Gordon Wileman - 6/28/06 12:40 PM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
Simplicity itself, as I see it, as a novice. Norton Ghost complete disc image, held on external HDD.
I know better !!!
by Irelands child - 6/28/06 3:34 PM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
Currently we have some of our papers in a fire and water resistant box in a hopefully safe place. Other papers are in a safe deposit box. This poll forum has reminded me that I do not have sufficiant safely stored information about us. I will be purchasing a couple of flash drives, passwording them then scanning our relevant paper work as well as photos, JUST IN CASE. I know better than to trust memory, the safe deposit box or our home fire resistant box. This information needs to contain:
1 a copy of birth certs - yours and any kids or relatives living with you
2 marriage license
3 scans credit cards
4 scans passport front pages
5 scans of property deeds
6 passwords for financial websites
7 scans of stock certs
8 photos of each room in your dwelling plus the outside
9 photos of vechicles and their registrations/titles
10 photos of expensive hobby components
11 scans of prescriptions
This is just to name a few of the more relevant items for me - others have more or less
"Electronic" Safe Deposit Box at a Bank
by euspos - 6/28/06 6:54 PM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
Have not read all threads, so it might be mentioned in an other post, but in order to safeguard (and be able to retrieve) PERSONAL data, we have a system of external hard drives, that are being updated on a regular basis. AT LEAST one of those disks are permanently in a safe deposit box at at a bank (within walking distance).
In same box is of course other "paper" data such as birth certificates, copies of passports, DLs, SSCs, tax filings, etc, etc.
On the to-do list is of course also to scan other important documents, but that has to wait until the summer's over. Too nice outside for stuff like that.
As no system is foolproof, I think we have found a decent compromise of keeping our data accessible, while still not making it too complicated.
personal data retrival
by larry123 - 6/28/06 11:59 PM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
After scanning and encripting all my data I'm burning CD's and DVd's and putting a copy in a banks safety deposite box, and sending out about 4 set's of disk to trusted friends and family around the country.
Disk one will contain the encription/decription software to retrieve the information so even if that software is no longer avalible, I'll still be able to run the program and retrieve my data.
Retrieving personal data
by jeanneordavid - 6/29/06 7:07 AM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
When I retired four years ago, it took me about three days to type up a listing of all of our financial information (credit card numbers, 800 numbers to call, website addresses, banks, etc.) and also a listing of website addresses, passwords, etc. and I only copied this out to a CD and did not save on my computer. I have the listings in our safe deposit at the bank and I update it about every six months. It maybe isn't completely 100% safe in case the bank is blown apart, but I feel relieved to have this information in one place. Our son has a key for our safe deposit box as well.
On line back up softwere are safer and cheaper
by belljessi - 1/18/08 4:25 AM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
I think the best solution to save my data is using on line back up and full system recovery data softweres, that use encryptions and security systems. At the moment i'm using a new softwere from Italy: Memopal (www.memopal.com), where i can store 250GB and access from anywhere.
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