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Originally Posted by Lynn  Presuming that we aren't talking about people here....
Nothing. I don't think there is anything that would be worth the risk of going into/hanging about in a burning building. Not even my dance shoe collection. Things can be replaced. And I have insurance.
(Though it probably would be a good idea to have a backup of all my teaching notes and photographs on disc in a fireproof safe or at a relatives house, now I come to think of it.) |
Few of us have fireproof safes. ==
I am a relative and I can not be trusted to put things where they can be found.
There are web sites that allow people to store data for free. This thread has prompted me to look into scanning in my family photos, press clippings, etc and storing them and other irreplaceable data online in a couple of those.
## There is a story that when the Belfast Co-op burned down the management went to the salvage crew in a panic. There had been a computer room on the top floor. The only copy of their TV rental data for the whole of N.I. was on tape in the fireproof safe. The safe was found, but the key had been left in the lock and had been broken off. So, an overkeen workman took an acetylene torch ...
(It may just be a story).