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A agree. I buy a new datacenter disk every 2 months and swap out the oldest in my primary storage, the swapped out goes to the cold-storage backup server. But

by dusted 3y ago

A agree. I buy a new datacenter disk every 2 months and swap out the oldest in my primary storage, the swapped out goes to the cold-storage backup server. But this is expensive and cumbersome and I am aware that I'm a liability, if I die, my family have limited access to my data. I'm preparing instructions so that they can extract it, I'm keeping the family-relevant parts of the data on a read-only share that multiple family members can access. Of course, if the server goes down while I die, little hope is left. Printing out photos is definitely a good start.

joshspankit 3y ago
You might be interested in something like B2. They have parity data and consistently validate all data stored with them as well as having multiple copies of your data in different geographic locations. And the cost is decent at $5/TB/mo (it has gone down over time). The server can easily sync changes on a schedule and if there are concerns about privacy you can also encrypt before sending (add your decryption key to the instructions).
midoridensha 3y ago
Why would your family have much trouble accessing the data on your system? Assuming you've stored the passwords someplace they can get to (and that assumes the disks are encrypted), even if they're tech-illiterate, they can just hire someone who knows how to work with Linux servers to retrieve the data (assuming that's what you're using). It won't be free of course, but unless you've devised some entirely custom OS and filesystem to store your family photos, it really shouldn't be that hard. Of course, you should probably write up some instructions so they don't need to hire an expert, but in the worst case where you get hit by a bus before you write them, it should be possible to get to that data. The real problem is if you're using encrypted filesystems, and you didn't bother to write the root password anywhere.

by dusted 3y ago

joshspankit 3y ago

You might be interested in something like B2. They have parity data and consistently validate all data stored with them as well as having multiple copies of your data in different geographic locations. And the cost is decent at $5/TB/mo (it has gone down over time). The server can easily sync changes on a schedule and if there are concerns about privacy you can also encrypt before sending (add your decryption key to the instructions).

midoridensha 3y ago

Why would your family have much trouble accessing the data on your system? Assuming you've stored the passwords someplace they can get to (and that assumes the disks are encrypted), even if they're tech-illiterate, they can just hire someone who knows how to work with Linux servers to retrieve the data (assuming that's what you're using). It won't be free of course, but unless you've devised some entirely custom OS and filesystem to store your family photos, it really shouldn't be that hard. Of course, you should probably write up some instructions so they don't need to hire an expert, but in the worst case where you get hit by a bus before you write them, it should be possible to get to that data. The real problem is if you're using encrypted filesystems, and you didn't bother to write the root password anywhere.