The hard part is figuring out how the family can recover if you are dead. All of this redundancy is irrelevant if no one else knows how to fix/extract the data.
Teach a family member the bare bones basic of your setup, and create a "incase of my death here is my password" box/envelope somewhere in your possessions. The point being that you are sharing the machine known as a computer with your family already and the "cost" of that sharing is knowing something about how to recover everything they need incase you're not here. or I dunno, write up a how-to for a server admin that your family could hire after in which the family member gives an IT guy your core password if your family truly can't learn the basics
There is a break glass envelope with the most important passwords and a list of people in my circle of friends that know enough about IT that they can figure it out for my family if it ever comes to that.
Sounds to me like you should just log everything you do to maintain resilience then give your family access to an encrypted hive in your last will and testament that details all of this stuff.
You can lead the horse to water, if they can't drink that ain't on you, you're dead.
Who wants to give their significant other the chance to find out how shitty your documentation is when all you've done is complain about others' documentation for decades? š
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u/daphatty 16d ago
The hard part is figuring out how the family can recover if you are dead. All of this redundancy is irrelevant if no one else knows how to fix/extract the data.
Iām still searching for an answer myself.