Storing serial numbers

A friend of mine recently had his gear taken during a burgulary of his home. He had recorded the serial numbers on his laptop, but unfortunately, the laptop was also taken. Just curious as to where you record your serial numbers? Also, any recommendations for storing them. I keep mine on a SD card.

I do online backups with Crashplan in addition on my own hard drive based backups. For small amounts of data, you could just store it on Dropbox, Skydrive, Google Docs, or just email it to a webmail account.

I have my serial numbers registered with Canon UK, dunno if you can do the same in Ireland. I also keep them stored on Evernote and Dropbox - the Cloud is perfect for this sort of stuff.

i have scans of the reciepts, a copy of the serial numbers, and a copy of the insurance policy on my external "backup" drive, my laptop, and one last copy on a USB key i keep in my wallet

Google Docs for me.

Gmail or something accessible from anywhere.

Redudant data access...

• A printed out copy kept folded in the pages of your passport
  
• A printed out copy kept inside one of your suitcases
  
• Electronic copy in your laptop
  
• Electronic copy in a memory stick
  
• Electronic copy burned on a CDROM
  
• Backup copy stored on a USB harddrive
  
• Emailed copy to yourself on web accessible email system (gmail, AOL, earthlink, etc.)
  

Thanks folks. Some good ideas there.

i don't do this. but i am going to start today now that i've seen tis thread. i'll probably use a document in google docs and also iCloud

Register lenses and camera with Canon online (link is Canon USA).

https://b2cweb.usa.can​on.com …ter_product_tri​plet%2ejsf

my insurance company has a list of what camera gear I've got, and we file away documents & receipts in a filing cabinet. Turns out recently when we had our TV stolen the serial number wasn't on the receipt though so not much use there!. After getting a new TV and unpacking it, dispatched the box to the storage shed where - you guessed it, the old box was, complete with serial number so at least it's now recorded in the police records as being stolen.

Have since then updated a spreadsheet of serial numbers and e-mailed it to myself so it's accessable via webmail in necessary.

Hmm the Canadian website doesn't let you register lenses, only bodies.

Unless I'm missing something???

If your friend has any RAW images (backup disk, emailed to someone) - a serial # for the camera which took the image is stored there.

tattooed on my butt. seriously, i don't keep them anywhere. they're all registered with Canon, I assume they keep them somewhere.

My insurance company has all the serials but I like the evernote and dropbox ideas too. I'll be doing that this weekend!