100% agree. We are developing service which tries to solve some of these problems, so I'll do a shameless plug here. One way to address these kind of problems

100% agree. We are developing service which tries to solve some of these problems, so I'll do a shameless plug here. One way to address these kind of problems is to use cloudHQ to synchronize your Google Docs with SugarSync (clickable: http://cloudHQ.net/sugarsync http://cloudHQ.net/sugarsync). (We are releasing dropbox this weekend). Here is our idea: there are many different cloud storage services and each of them is very good for a particular use case but not so good for other use cases. For example, Google Docs service is excellent for collaboration but not so good for storage. On the other hand, Dropbox or Sugarsync service is excellent for storage but not so for collaboration. So if data is continuously synchronized between Google Docs and lets say SugarSync storage, then you can always fall back to SugarSync when Google Docs becomes unavailable and vice versa. In order words, you can use other service as a standby site in case of service unavailability, malicious or accidental deletion of files, etc.