Most everyone has knows that you should have an inventory of what is in your home in case it is destroyed or stolen; and for those really on the ball you have photographs. In the past it was not convenient to take photos dealing with film and processing in the old days or downloading from your camera and putting them on some type of removable media (CD/DVD, flash drive) and if you did, figuring out where to store them or your inventory list so a flood or fire would destroy them as well.
Enter the cloud and Smartphones. Take pictures with your cellphone, and with automatic upload setting on cellphones they can automatically be loaded to the cloud. Personally, I used my Android phone took pictures and had them uploaded to a private (non shared) photo album on Google+, which has no space limit on photos. Similar upload features exist for Dropbox, but those pictures count against your size limit. Microsoft Skydrive and Google Drive would also be options.
With a little more effort you could also load them to Facebook and achieve the same end result.
As for the inventory, my solution is Google Docs. I keep an inventory of all the major purchases in my home (flat panels, appliances, computer equipment...) with model and serial numbers on a Google Docs Spreadsheet. Easy to create, easy to update and takes care of storing it an offsite location that is easy to get to. In addition to the disaster recovery features, you can easily access those numbers from you phone when you need them. Recently I needed to buy a part for our microwave, "What's the model number?" Whipped out my phone and had it in a few seconds.
How do you use technology and the cloud for disaster recovery??
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