If you need lots of space, look at a pure online backup service, Caronite．Ĭaronite backs up 300 million files daily．Once you sign up, it starts to pick up everything you have on your hard drive．But photo collection on your computer's main hard drive charges for $ 59 a year．įor folks who don't need automatic backup, but instead want to take a more active approach, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft's SkyDrive let you store files online by yourself, share and instantly access them．All offer free options-2GB of free storage for Dropbox, 5GB for Google and 7GB for SkyDrive．But if you want more, you need to pay． You could make multiple copies of the disks and spread them to loved ones．Or you could choose external (外接的) hard drives or USB thumb drive, and add your photo and video collection from your computer． With your scans in place, import the photos into your computer, and back them up． The first step for those old photos is to scan them and save them to a digital format (格式)．Most，printers come with scanners these days, so that's an easy but extremely time-consuming step． Here is a brochure (手册) on how to back up (存) your photos and save them online, where they can live forever and be accessible in good times and bad． If that doesn't move you to get serious about safekeeping your lifetime of memories, what will? The digital age offers tools never imaginable before-including one-click access to a lifetime of family photos． People were in tears, picking up faded photographs, among their only remaining possessions．

The images were striking．Homes on the East Coast were washed away by Superstorm Sandy.

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