Storing photos and videos on your computer is a bad idea if you don’t have a backup service that makes copies of your files, and places them somewhere they would remain safe if your HD crashed. And there’s no end to the number of services for getting that job done, really. You have no excuse for being unprotected. Digital Lifeboat is one such service. You can use it to back up all your data (or “digital treasures”, as the people who’ve created the service like to say), and then retrieve it from anywhere you can connect to the Internet. Digital Lifeboat is a distributed storage cloud service that lets you do that in a secure and extremely easy-to-understand way. When using this service, all of the files that you select are compressed and encrypted. They are then processed with an Erasure Coding algorithm, and stored in several different computers.
An annual subscription to Digital Lifeboat is $29.95. This lets you have all the data on your main PC stored, and securely backed up. And if you use more than one computer frequently and you wish to have the data found there backed as well, then you can add more computers by paying an extra fee. Currently, each additional computer is going to cost you $14.95.
Other personal backup services already available include backupElf and Safeberg. And just in case you’re interested, there’s also services for backing up your Facebook data. See SocialSafe for a good example.
DigitalLifeboat.com In Their Own Words
Digital Lifeboat has been created for all personal computer users who store photos, music, videos and documents on their PCs, and would be sad if they lost them. We have a simple to use software service to backup and protect what matters most to you.
Some Questions About DigitalLifeboat.com
Is there really no limit on how much data you can back up? 
