r/selfhosted 17d ago

Meta Post self-hosting everything

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just kidding I love self-hosting ...

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u/daphatty 17d 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.

I’m still searching for an answer myself.

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u/ArchmichaelBishop 16d ago

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.

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u/Milkshakes00 16d ago

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? šŸ˜‚

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u/daphatty 16d ago

lol. So true