> Also, consider off site back-up. Either on-line or by leaving
> cd's at your brothers house. Either is a fine way to preserve
> your docs.

I highly recommend off-site backups. Consider the disaster most likely in your area and pick a place not in your disaster zone. (_Big_ zone if you're in hurricane areas, smaller zone in tornado alley.) I'm on the West Coast and my brother is in Texas, so I'm happy to mail him CDs of stuff and expect it to survive my earthquake.

Archiving stuff online is worrisome, because I don't know if I'll have reasonable access after a big hurricane, but I do also maintain backups online on servers that I'm told are outside my area.