Recently I have decided that the backup solution I have been using is far too complex for my family to figure out when I die. I began writing documentation on how they can access photos, videos, documents and so on. In that process I thought, I gotta make this simple.

I’m thinking of just having two 10TB drives in RAID 1 on my desktop that get backed up to Backblaze via restic. Backblaze and similar cloud storage providers can send you a copy of your data for recovery. I think I can sufficiently document this process.

Has anyone else come up with a similar process?

  • DLSantini@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I want the opposite. I want all of my data to be completely inaccessible to anyone, and potentially even self-destruct somehow.

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      11 months ago

      I’m sure that really depends on the data.

      If we’re talking about stuff like family photos, then having it retrievable feels pretty reasonable to me.

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        11 months ago

        Sure, if you have family photos. Or a family that you want to have access to anything of yours. I do not. And I very specifically want to do everything in my power to prevent my so-called family from gaining access to anything of mine, digital or physical.