Home contents insurance & digital media

[0iD]

Anyone else watch The Gadget Show on 5? Well they did an interesting piece on whether your home contents insurance covers your downloads & digital media. Something I hadn't given any thought to tbh. Like most people I back my data up to external storage, but it's still on-site. So in the event of a house fire, the back-ups go too.

Anyway, something worth checking if you buy a lot of apps & music via download.
Features - The Gadget Show

[Rosaline]

Good issue, thank you for pointing this out!

Of course, I personally prefer my digital distribution systems to allow me to log back on and download again. Kinda dodgy if they don't, in my opinion, given the ethereal nature of such material.

[gman1981]

Most download services should/will allow you to re-download any purchased digital content? Not sure though - I'm pretty sure I have done it with iTunes before - but I might be imagining that.

[0iD]

Good issue, thank you for pointing this out!

Of course, I personally prefer my digital distribution systems to allow me to log back on and download again. Kinda dodgy if they don't, in my opinion, given the ethereal nature of such material.

Well there you go, I keep all my software download licences backed up & hard copy, but again on-site. Must stop doing that & put them all on SkyDrive or similar. Thanks for making me think of that, busy evening ahead

Most download services should/will allow you to re-download any purchased digital content? Not sure though - I'm pretty sure I have done it with iTunes before - but I might be imagining that.

Some do, some you pay extra for an extended download link. But uploading the app + licence file will be safer methinks

[Lee H]

does it cover my millions of live mixes and pr0n ?

Nope Time for a DDS backup solution

[Rosaline]

Something a lot of you might be interested in could well be what a few of my friends did back when I was at the University of Warwick:

They gained permission from their families elsewhere in the country to install a server in their homes, then wrote a backup script which would automatically upload from their computer in student digs back to the server in the family home

Obviously this isn't a very effective method for very large quantities of material, but for essential files this can prove to be very effective and cheap!

[Lee H]

My solution is going to be simple actually, I was joking before

I've 80% of the hardware already here - 939 3500+, 2 Gb DDR and a motherboard all ready in a huge rackstyle case. All I need now is a few 1 Tb drives and I should have a RAID 5 NAS storage system located under the stairs based on the freenas software.