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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?

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Post by PopAlongKid »

mattbee wrote: post #20

A Fuji Snapscan S1500 + folder of PDFs on my laptop + full text search. Mylio for photos. I sometimes purge and file, but not very often. There's always a bit too much that is attached to emails, I try to remember to save stuff out. A Synology NAS in the attic which backs up the above. No encryption. An £50 "fireproof" box for passports, citizenship certs, things where the original is important. I assembled a ridicul…

>A Fuji Snapscan S1500

That's "ScanSnap", not Snapscan. :-) I posted about how handy these are before I saw your comment.

>There's always a bit too much that is attached to emails, I try to remember to save stuff out.

Same here. In fact, I always either save or delete attachments, I never leave them in my Thunderbird mail store.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?

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mavhc wrote: post #70
aulin wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where do you guys live to need to store birth certificate in a fireproof bag? I can just login into my government website with a digital identity provider and print one legally valid copy any time. Same for any identity related certificate.

Do you store your login to the website in a fireproof bag?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?

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Post by mead5432 »

vr46 wrote: post #24

A Synology NAS running Portainer ( https://www.portainer.io/ ) running Paperless NGX ( https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx ) This works better than I can possibly tell you. I have an Epson WorkForce ES-580W that I bought when my mother passed away to bulk scan documents and it scans everything, double-sided if required, multi-page PDFs if required, at very high speed and uploads everything to OneDrive, at…

I have Paperless watching a network folder from my NAS. The scanner scans directly into that folder and Paperless picks it up and processes it within a couple seconds. Even if Paperless went down for a bit (which happened before I upgraded my server), the files remain on the shared drive until it comes back online.

Without that, I had paper piling up waiting to be scanned.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?

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Post by DontchaKnowit »

AlexanderDhoore wrote: post #12

In Belgium, every citizen has access to a "digital vault" provided by the government, which is accessible using their ID card. Individuals can upload up to 1GB of documents into this vault. It's a well-designed system that ensures privacy during one's lifetime, but you can choose what happens with it after your passing. https://www.izimi.be/en/

As an American, this is hilarious. The american people would riot in the street over something like this

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?

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Post by rufus_foreman »

vr46 wrote: post #24

A Synology NAS running Portainer ( https://www.portainer.io/ ) running Paperless NGX ( https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx ) This works better than I can possibly tell you. I have an Epson WorkForce ES-580W that I bought when my mother passed away to bulk scan documents and it scans everything, double-sided if required, multi-page PDFs if required, at very high speed and uploads everything to OneDrive, at…

I haven't looked at Portainer before, what does it give you that just running a Docker instance on the NAS doesn't do?

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?

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Post by salil999 »

jamil7 wrote: post #62
salil999 wrote: post #49

Apple solves this problem well! Note that I use iCloud family which allows me to share the storage with my family. But for going down the list: A) Mint for most financials. iCloud for storage of documents. B) Apple Health for keeping track of my records. For ad-hoc stuff I use iCloud to store the documents. C) Product and service info I use iCloud for. Logins and credentials to them are stored in my family's 1Passwor…

What do you do for recoverable backups? I also use iCloud for everything important but haven't figured out a good, automated system for full backups.

I guess the first question that comes to mind is what exactly are you trying to back up that can't work with iCloud?

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?

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Post by grvdrm »

rovr138 wrote: post #41
grvdrm wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting solution. Looking at the pricing for rsync: do they charge you for data transferred or data at rest? Or maybe I’m misunderstanding their pricing altogether. Also what are you using to actually sync?

You get access to a shell via ssh, https://www.rsync.net/products/platform.html Looking at, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Arsync.net%2Fproducts&t=ipho... You have rclone, sftp, rsync, restic, borg, synology and other. My understanding is there’s no bandwidth pricing. (I’m sure they’ll show up and clarify it. Amazing they always seem to do so)

Thanks - this is awesome. I will investigate. Might solve the problem I’ve had forever!

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?

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Post by undebuggable »

dudus wrote: post #58

Google photos for photos and videos, I use storage saver which reduces quality but whatever. Everything else goes into Google drive. I use the Google drive app on Android to scan my physical documents, and I pay for the 200GB plan which is enough for all my stuff. I've been hoping to write a script to backup stuff into an S3 bucket. I just never have the time.

> I've been hoping to write a script to backup stuff into an S3 bucket. I just never have the time.

Here it is [1]. Funny thing about backups is everyone needs something similar, yet everyone ends up rolling out their own tool set. Backblaze turns out much cheaper than S3.

[1] https://github.com/undebuggable/backup-upload

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?

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Post by 0x445442 »

cwilper wrote: post #64

This is a fascinating topic that doesn't get the attention it deserves. The idea of trusting a single entity (the family computer expert, a single company, or a government agency) to be the sole host or custodian of important records and family photos/videos is fraught with risk: Even if that entity has redundancy across multiple geographic locations, they can have security breaches, their software can fail, their bu…

> This is a fascinating topic that doesn't get the attention it deserves.

Agreed. Documents and Photos are the bane of my existence. To the point that I don't like taking photos on trips and events because I know what's to follow.

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