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?
My backup solution is hard to setup and maintain, but shouldn’t be terrible for someone else to recover from.
All the phones sync to nextcloud when on wifi and charging. My server has alternating encrypted backups, and one is always off-site.
If I go, my wife can plug it in and punch in the password. Hopefully that’s enough.
Please don’t think I’m disparaging your wife here but in my experience saying “they should just be able to …” Has never been followed by the intended person “just being able to…”. Even people I thought were very intelligent/tech savvy. It may be worthwhile to run through the procedure with her a few times if shes not already familiar with it.
I was thinking “she should be able to” … “ask one of my friends to figure it out”.
As long as she knows what the passwords are, a tach savvy friend will figure out the rest.