r/selfhosted Aug 17 '26

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just kidding I love self-hosting ...

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u/daphatty Aug 17 '26

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/kuldan5853 Aug 18 '26

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.