I posted about my homebrew solution for photos/documents/scan archiving with a local NAS + encrypted offsite backup on a VPS last week at https://news.ycombinat

I posted about my homebrew solution for photos/documents/scan archiving with a local NAS + encrypted offsite backup on a VPS last week at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863822#29888273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863822#29888273 . My use case is 300-400GB of photos which is affordable on a 4TB VPS. In short, I have an old desktop-turned-NAS with ZFS that will tolerate 2 physical drive failures and access my photos over a network share. It runs a weekly cron script to copy an iterative, encrypted borg backup of the photos offsite over sshfs to my VPS. I can mount specific date's snapshots over sshfs back to the nas/another machine if I ever need to recover anything without having to enter the password on the VPS. It's a good question on what would happen if I died. Thanks for getting me to consider this. My spouse wouldn't have a clue with the VPS or how to fix the NAS but could pay someone to easily copy the data off. I should leave a note taped inside the case. For now I'll plug an external ntfs drive into the NAS and if needed she could plug that into any other device.