Hey everyone,
I’m struggling at this, and hence looking at your collective wisdom.
We are all selfhosting here (at least, willing to), so we know that it takes some time and skills.
But have you envisionned what your familly will do if the worst happen ? (e.g. you die in an accident)
Can someone take over, or all the setup will slowly fall appart and data be lost?
In my case, no one will be able to follow up. So all important documents and photos are mapped through nfs to all PC at home, so familly will still be able to access.
They know that everything important is stored on a NAS (hiwever, not sure they can identify and find it).
Same for all the passwords, a keepass file that is setup to be access easily and from all PCs. I have the plan to document in there an emergency way for them to secure the data.
And you, how do you manage that?
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Years ago I recorded a video saying “if you watch this and I’m gone, you’re fucked, export immediately right now all the passwords, photos and emails from the family cloud. Don’t wait, do it immediately right now, without maintenance everything will break within 2 years at max. Watch the instructions at home.domain.com/emergency the instructions on how to do it. They will be probably be outdated because hopefully several decades are passed, so you might adapt them to the new version. If someone in the family has computer skills, in the disk you there’s the ssh password for the home server”
Then I saved it on a DVD, I wrote on it “backup keys for the Bitcoin wallet” and hidden it in my drawer
backup keys for the Bitcoin wallet
Hahaha… I like that!!
“On a DVD”… 😅 in some decades that might as well be like saving your video to 8mm film. Gotta call some specialist antique dealer on the other side of the continent to find the right tech and right adapters to play it back on modern hardware
My wife and I share the same KeePass database for all of our passwords (synced across several devices via Syncthing).
Like me, she runs Fedora Silverblue and knows her way around a terminal well enough to follow instructions. I make a point to add verbose markdown notes to the vital KeePass entries; detailing how to decrypt the backup drives, restart services on our Proxmox server, etc. She also knows where the backup drives are located, both at home and off-site; and so does my son, in case anything happens to the both of us at once.
They might not be able to carry on exactly as things are now, but they’ll definitely be able to maintain access to our family photos, financials, etc., and that’s all that really matters.
All of my passwords are in Bitwarden and important ones are shared with my wife who has her own Botwarden and has shared her important passwords back with me. If one of us goes, the other will have access to everything. I don’t (yet) have any descendants to inherit anything of importance, so I’m not worried about anything beyond my passwords so that if something happens to me, my wife can manage all of the accounts for bills, banking, communication, etc.
If/when I have children, I will likely make a new plan that builds on what I already have, with directions to access my password vault that can be given to my brother and his husband and my parents, should they outlive me and my wife. With my passwords, everything else of import is accessible. Thankfully, my brother is very tech savvy, so if my wife and I both go, I can trust him to be able to log in to everything and pull important media down.
When I die, I will go to heaven. This isn’t exactly the worst.
The server itself will remain quite stable for a long time.
The others won’t be able to continue administrating/maintaining the server. They understand that, so they will probably copy all their files to their local devices, sooner or later, and stop using the other services.
