My Digital Life....

With the rise of media centres and similar devices which aim to bring together all my digital photos, music and films into one convenient location I'm very keen to set something up at home. However, I am still concerned about how easily I could loose everything dear to me (could I live without my Duran Duran collection?... errmm well...). At the moment if my house got robbed and someone walked off with all my CDs and DVDs I would phone my insurance company, tell them what got nicked and they (hopefully) would reimburse me for all my missing shiney disks. But what happens if it was all on a hard disk somewhere and was downloaded from iTunes music store? How do I prove I ever paid for this? Sure I coule lie about how many CDs I owned and, to some extent, I doubt the insurance company would be too bothered. But what about 0.5TB of music? I mean at about 79pence per track and a track being about 4MB that is approximately...more than 100,000 UKP! Blimey! With disk sizes as they are it is near impossible to back them up unless it is to another disk and is everyone expected to setup some kind of home network with a server to autobackup?. There is a real lack of any support for domestic backup services (a real buisiness opportunity in the making I reckon). And another thing. If my house gets robbed now chances are my photos won't get taken as they have very little resale value. However, if they are unfortunate enough to be stored on something that does have resale value - like a media centre - then I can't really see your average burgular stopping to back them up for me before he buggers off with the box. Unless of course he is thoroughly decent chap in which case he wouldn't be in my house in the first place!