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?
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 They will be probably be outdated because hopefully several decades are passed, so you might adapt them to the new version.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
“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