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?

  • privsecfoss@feddit.dk
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    11 months ago

    Often thought of the same thing. So leaving this comment here in case someone got a good solution that don’t involve big tech.

    When I get the time my plan is to read up on big techs solutions, fx Google and Apple, who as I understand can give your family access under certain conditions if your’ve passed.

    EDIT: And replicate their solution using FOSS / self hosting.

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      11 months ago

      My mom just got access to my dad’s iPhone/iCloud data. She had his credentials I’m sure but they sent her a link to download it all.