This is an important point. Not only should your online services have an easy way for you to get data out of them, but you probably should have a reasonably sa

This is an important point. Not only should your online services have an easy way for you to get data out of them, but you probably should have a reasonably sane backup schedule, just like you would for hard drives/physical media/etc. That being said this is a very short amount of time, and hopefully future shutdowns like this at yahoo and other places give more of a warning.