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After I’m Gone Backup Solution (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by 0933 to c/selfhosted

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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?

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[–] tabular 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can't imagine any perceivable value of my media for family members, even if they could figure out how to use it.
Since my desktop isn't running Windows I'm not sure my sister could just start using it instead of my old rig I gave her.

How long do SSDs last in a time capsule?

[–] mesamunefire 5 points 1 year ago

There are tape drives that are certified to last for a very long time and are as easy as USB plug ins. Looks like a brick and is as heavy as one. Very low speed but you can pack a lot of data for a very long time in one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Enterprise SSDs are certified to retain data without power for 3 months. That's extremely conservative - but I wouldn't push it to more than about two years.

[–] tburkhol 2 points 1 year ago

You might be surprised how much attention family will put into your media, especially any pictures, movies, or audio that you created, when you're gone. It's a way to commune with their memory of you. My family still regularly trots out boxes of physical photographs of grandparents' grandparents & homes no one has visited in 70 years.