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I've given this some thought too and am doing some documenting for friends. Hard to know the answer. I have paperless photos seafile and a few other things cop

by zeagle 2y ago

I've given this some thought too and am doing some documenting for friends. Hard to know the answer. I have paperless photos seafile and a few other things copying to a usb drive nightly that my spouse may remember to grab unencrypted. I'm tempted to throw a 2tb ssd in her laptop to just mirror it too. But access my nas let alone setting it up somewhere else after a move or with new network equipment, email hosting for our domain, domain registration are all going to be voodoo to my spouse without some guidance. I'm tempted to switch to bitwarden proper instead of self hosted too.

transpute 2y ago
Data recovery instructions can be documented on paper in the same physical location used for financial accounts, e.g. fireproof safe, trusted off-site records, estate attorney. These recovery instructions are also required for data hosted by third parties.
justsomehnguy 2y ago
> are all going to be voodoo to my spouse That's why you really need to rethink your 'if you are hearing this I musta croaked' procedure. Thing is, 99% of the files on your NAS and whatever never would be accessed after your death. And anything of importance should be accessible even if you are alive but incapacitated but your NAS is dead. So the best thing to do is to make a list of Very Important Documents and have it in the printed form in two locations, eg your house for the immediate access and someone's parents who are close enough. And update it every year, with a calendar reminder in both of yours calendars. You can throw a flash drive[0] there too, with the files which can't be printed but you think they have a sentimental value. [0] personally I don't believe SSDs are for the task of the long term storage, but flash drives I've seen to survive at least 5 years
- zeagle 2y ago
  For sure. Good advice. It's a fool dream to think almost anything has value for more than pennies on the dollar or access after one passes as many of us have learned cleaning out elderly parents homes and estates. For what it's worth: my solution is having an external USB plugged into the NAS that gets nightly rsync'd copies of photos, phone backups, paperless' PDF archive and seafile's contents in a regular folder. Few people know to grab it. The second part is our laptops keep a copy of seafile's contents (all our documents and another flat file paperless backup in it). A few of my friends and a txt file on that drive have a list of stuff that will break in the midterm, namely: email hosting, domain renewal. A few things on my todo list are: probably stop self hosting calendar/contacts one day, put a large SSD in her laptop so it syncs the photo share from the NAS, switch to paid bitwarden instead of self hosted. Other things are gravy. My accountant and lawyer can figure out business stuff, corporate liquidation, and life insurance. Funny you say that about SSDs, just in the last day my <1 year old 990 is having issues.

by zeagle 2y ago

transpute 2y ago

Data recovery instructions can be documented on paper in the same physical location used for financial accounts, e.g. fireproof safe, trusted off-site records, estate attorney. These recovery instructions are also required for data hosted by third parties.

justsomehnguy 2y ago

> are all going to be voodoo to my spouse That's why you really need to rethink your 'if you are hearing this I musta croaked' procedure. Thing is, 99% of the files on your NAS and whatever never would be accessed after your death. And anything of importance should be accessible even if you are alive but incapacitated but your NAS is dead. So the best thing to do is to make a list of Very Important Documents and have it in the printed form in two locations, eg your house for the immediate access and someone's parents who are close enough. And update it every year, with a calendar reminder in both of yours calendars. You can throw a flash drive[0] there too, with the files which can't be printed but you think they have a sentimental value. [0] personally I don't believe SSDs are for the task of the long term storage, but flash drives I've seen to survive at least 5 years

zeagle 2y ago
For sure. Good advice. It's a fool dream to think almost anything has value for more than pennies on the dollar or access after one passes as many of us have learned cleaning out elderly parents homes and estates. For what it's worth: my solution is having an external USB plugged into the NAS that gets nightly rsync'd copies of photos, phone backups, paperless' PDF archive and seafile's contents in a regular folder. Few people know to grab it. The second part is our laptops keep a copy of seafile's contents (all our documents and another flat file paperless backup in it). A few of my friends and a txt file on that drive have a list of stuff that will break in the midterm, namely: email hosting, domain renewal. A few things on my todo list are: probably stop self hosting calendar/contacts one day, put a large SSD in her laptop so it syncs the photo share from the NAS, switch to paid bitwarden instead of self hosted. Other things are gravy. My accountant and lawyer can figure out business stuff, corporate liquidation, and life insurance. Funny you say that about SSDs, just in the last day my <1 year old 990 is having issues.