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What's your contingency plan for the apocalypse? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 weeks ago by jobbies@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

My servers run on a power station and then solar panels with a battery.

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

I have a boat.

What if you heard the Feds are coming to cart you and your servers away cos they suspect you of bad mouthing Emperor Tromp?

Don't live in the US. Servers are encrypted and backed up off-site.

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?

It takes A LOT for an EMP to fry electronics. The most important pictures can be printed. Already have a lot of albums. Some of my pictures is stored on discs.

In an apocalypse or an emergency, none of this stuff really matters though. You are better of making sure you have enough food, water and shelter. In almost any event, your servers are just going to sit there, waiting to be turned on again, when hopefully everything is back to "normal".