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A comment on Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal documents and other data?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal documen... by chiph on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:19PM (#33617633)
Local versions are on a Synology NAS. Which gets backed up more-or-less monthly to external hard drives using Truecrypt. One set of drives is saved at the house in a fire safe, and the older set is stored offsite at the office (which if I get fired can be abandoned without fear of disclosure).

Insurance documents are printed out and stored in a plastic tote. Along with the car title & house deed, some cash, passport and other important documents in case I have to evacuate for a hurricane. I can grab it and the cat carrier, and out the door I go.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal documen... by nxte on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @09:00PM (#33617888)
Do you use cloud backups at all? I just got a Synology NAS and was looking into AWS Glacier. I'm not yet ready to manage my own offsite hardware, but maybe I'll get there eventually.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal documen... by chiph on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @07:58AM (#33622243)
No, for two reasons. 1) I have almost 30TB of data so the monthly cost would be more than I want to pay. 2) I don't trust them to keep my data secure.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal documen... by throwaway894345 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:20AM (#33625656)
> I don't trust them to keep my data secure.

Encrypt it?

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