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After I’m Gone Backup Solution
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this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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All of our data is backed up 2N+C - two NASes and an encrypted rclone in S3. This includes family videos, photos, and all "paper" records (Paperless-ngx for the win).
I've documented my homelab in Joplin, and stored all my homelab passwords (and Bitwarden password) in a Keypass database. Those files are stored on a USB stick in our household safe, along with a printed letter instructing my wife to pass everything on to one of my brothers.
The first half of my homelab manual details how to return our smart home to un-smart. The second half contains detailed technical data on how my entire home network hangs together.
I'm currently thinking about some sort of dead man's switch, where copies of the letter and files from the USB stick are auto-emailed to my wife and both my brothers in the event I don't check in for a period of time - say two weeks or so. That way, should the house burn down with only me in it, my wife will still be able to get to all of our records and memories.
This is on par with what i do with the addition of two external hard drives. One with my stuff (server+personal) and one when her stuff (personal). I can recover shit in multiple ways and if she needs to she just grabs the external and plugs it into a laptop.
This is fantastic, especially the dead man’s switch part.
Yeah, still pondering that. I need to be able to trust it implicitly to not send everything accidentally. The alternative is that I leave a USB stick with each of my brothers as well, and only send the instructions using the dead man's switch.
The problem there is keeping the data on the USB sticks current. And making sure they don't misplace it themselves.
Like I said, I'm still working out the kinks in my plan.
Un-smarting our home is indeed my current concern if I would pass suddenly. It's mostly usable manually but most switches would continually try to connect to WiFi and mqtt. I rather hope have my teenager son be able to take over if need be. My passwords could be accessed by my wife anytime but I'm not sure she realises it, it would be to be documented.