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?

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    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.