submitted 2 years ago by abeorch@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Just a bit or a wandering mind on my part but one of the issues in the back of my mind is what happens to whatever self hosting I setup if something happens to me.

Ideally I'd like to be able to know that in case of emergency Id be able rely on a good friend or two to keep things going.

My thought was that would require some common design patterns/ processes and standardisation.

I also have these thoughts because eventually Id like to support other family members with self hosted services at their places. Standardising hardware, configurations etc makes that much simpler.

How have others approached this?

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[-] thayer@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My wife and I share a KeePass database for all of our credentials, including the keys to our digital kingdom. I document our LAN design, server setup, and general maintenance notes, which are synced between all of our devices via SyncThing.

I add notes and quick instructions to the important credentials, like "See Proxmox.md to start this service", or "This password decrypts our file server drive...to do this, open a terminal and paste the following..."

She is comfortable pasting commands into a terminal already, so if anything ever happens to me I am confident she or my son will at least be able to access our data and move it to a more user-friendly format.

Edit: Had way too many words lol

[-] abeorch@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Is that https://keepass.info/ ?

[-] thayer@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Yep, that's the one. We use KeePassDX on mobile and KeePassXC on the desktop.

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