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Say ww3 kicks off and power goes off - how are you keeping your servers up? Solar panels and batteries?

What if there's a biblical flood and you dont have the means to build an arc? All your servers are destroyed beyond repair?

What if you heard the Feds are coming to cart you and your servers away cos they suspect you of bad mouthing Emperor Tromp? (you're on the run or subject to months of torture and yeah, you're never getting your kit back)

What if theres a war and Luxembourg (you know, the enemy) let's of an EMP pulse that kills your servers and all the infrastructure (power, internet...). How do you access all those cherished pics on Immich?

I'm not suggesting any of this will/can happen, its all just for lols, but have you made any contingency plans? Big binders full of printouts, bug-out bags, those flower-type solar things that track the sun, Faraday cages....

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[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

In the grand scheme of things the only thing on my server stack that's really worth anything is immich. The rest will have very little value to anyone once I'm gone. Plan is to create printed books from the photos and those should stay accessible for the future generations, our archive just needs a ton of work on creating those photos and possibly adding descriptions on who's on the pictures and when they're taken.

I don't really plan for ww3 nor solar flare frying half of the planet, but one thing that's a real problem is that if something happens to myself. My wife or kids don't know how to manage/access a majority of the stuff there is even if their everyday digital life is using network and services in it I've built. They'll be just fine without pihole or jellyfin, but data in immich/nextcloud is valuable and bus factor for the digital environment is pretty low.

I should at least verify that all server passwords are on my bitwarden vault and set up dead mans switch on that. Then they can at least get someone to pull the data out of the systems or even hire someone to maintain them. Best option would be if one of the kids would learn the ropes, but so far it doesn't seem like they're interested on anything like that.

[–] kokomo@reddit.kokomo.cloud 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://github.com/Crosstalk-Solutions/project-nomad and https://github.com/DadsMmoLab/dads-mmo-lab, that's about all I might need in the apocalypse, with me having solar powered battery banks enough to last me a good while. Project Nomad would be perfect, I would just have to get the resources before said apocalypse but it sounds like a neat little project just in case. I also would use kiwix for reading, idk.

[–] DemonSlayerB@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kiwix is built in to nomad I believe.

[–] kokomo@reddit.kokomo.cloud 1 points 1 month ago

Ah right, for sure then!

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

None of it will matter. That said, short term FUBAR can be mitigated. I have a semi-portable solar setup that currently runs my internet, NAS, Fridge and to some degree, the A/C.

To prep for the serious mess, I have to get Faraday bags for my server, drives, and solar generator and have enough time to bag everything before the EMP hits.

I have survival guides in book form as well as on the NAS, and I work the land enough to bring the soil into balance and build its fertility, plus feed the bees so they'll be there when I need them.

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT
DNS Domain Name Service/System
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
LXC Linux Containers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NAT Network Address Translation
PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SBC Single-Board Computer
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
nginx Popular HTTP server

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[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Kill a relative or two as a final favour. Check if the wife still wants to live, check if I can be bothered to carry on. If so I’d either head into the mountains or down to the coast (get a boat) and try and get away from population centres for a year.

Edit: Sorry, just seen “selfhosted”. I’ve got about a terabyte of stuff on sd cards - super packable. Those, a handset, a wind-up radio and solar phone charger.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I got a generator, a rifle and a lawn chair.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I hope to avoid the apocalypse, Armageddon and black Friday but I know I must eventually succumb to time.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

In most of those situations I have bigger problems to deal with and can always restore from backup later.

If it's so serious I don't even have backups left then it doesn't matter anymore.

[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

I have an off site backup that runs every 24 hours with rustic, for my important documents I archive with paperless. That's about it. If there is no energy anymore I give a shit on my Jellyfin collection but see how I can cook food. If I need to flee I may take an HDD with me, but only the important stuff.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

UPS for 1-2 minutes.

They won't find my server ;-)

Feds are coming

...most important: I am not inside Usa.

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