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If you have a family and your family uses all this self-hosted stuff (backup, file storage, email etc), what would happen when you die or get a serious health i

If you have a family and your family uses all this self-hosted stuff (backup, file storage, email etc), what would happen when you die or get a serious health issue? Do you think your spouse or kids can get the data out themselves? No-one will have a clue where the backups are, how the emails are stored, where those pics are etc. And even more difficult in case you have implemented some clever encryption and 2-factor etc. We all think it's simple. It's just to copy the files from "that" folder on the server to your own machine or a USB disk, but it is not so easy in practice for most people. Even for someone competent it can be difficult to sort through the mess if it is not well documented. I say this as someone who hosts the backup and all the pics on a NAS.

romwell 4y ago
> Do you think your spouse or kids can get the data out themselves? No-one will have a clue where the backups are, how the emails are stored, where those pics are etc. As opposed to what, your spouse having no idea which cloud services you used for file storage, what login credentials you had, and having no ability to access those accounts? > Even for someone competent it can be difficult to sort through the mess if it is not well documented. The most difficult part is sorting through the mess, however it is documented. It's been three years since my father's passing, and I have yet to open his laptop. I can't. I don't need any credentials to access the box of old family photos to get them scanned, and yet it's still an item on the to-do list.