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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s nothing on my systems that anyone else needs to survive. They can wipe the drives and run a bunch of web servers that only serve up hamsterdance in perpetuity for all I care.

If I did need something like that I’d program some kind of dead man’s switch to email instructions with a master password to a trusted party if I didn’t log on for 2 weeks or something. Then hope I never end up in a coma or otherwise incapacitated but not dead. There are 3rd parties that do that kind of thing but I wouldn’t trust them and would roll my own.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I was thinking about such a system also, but it has some serious drawbacks:

I need to connect to it regularly. Auto login is of course not an option, that defeat the purpose. So, which service/stuff am I using that could be this switch? I see any.
time limit to send the message is also tricky. 2 weeks is too long imo, they may need some info about insurances sooner. And 2 weeks is already short, as you need to authenticate to the switch

So, as a farewell message why not, but I would not trust such system to deliver in a tilely manner information that they need.