[JERRY2KONE]

Yes soft copies are acceptable for just about anything. Even where they say no copies if you have a lagitimate reason like you suffered a flood and all was lost, then it would be hard for them to argue the point.

My suggestion would be to purchase a few of the larger thumb drives to put your personal documents on and keep them in the portable safe for quick retreaval in an emergency. The only issue with any of this is setting up a periodic schedule for updating your back up files. Thats the problem for most people, because they set things up and then forget to do updates. Using a thumb drive keeps things simple and makes it easy to get copies whenever you need them and you can retreave them on any PC with a USB connection.

We have all of our photos on a 32gig thumb drive, and all of our personal docs on another 32gig drive. So far we have never had to retreave any info from them, but we know they are there is one of our PCs should suffer a catastrophy of some kind.