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

submitted 2 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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[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They sound absolutely indestructible! Id end up with hundreds of them at 24GB each though 🤣 I'd need one of those CD flip books everyone had in their cars in the 90s!

I dont think minidisks ever got used for tech stuff but I think later on you could store/read mp3s with them. Ahh the nostalgia.

[–] Australis13@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, my mistake, I'm getting mixed up between minidiscs and the 8cm mini CDs.

You can get multi-layer M-disc BD-Rs, though, up to the triple layer 100GB BDXL (although you need one of the BDXL burners to write those; the 50GB BD-R DLs can be written by most burners). They cost a pretty penny, though!

The biggest problem now is the disappearance of Bluray burners/writers. Here in Aus there are no internal drives available on the market any more. I've had to stock up with a few second-hand spares before they get too pricey.

[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mini CDs are news to me too. I do remember folks burning their CVs onto business card sized/shaped CDs at one point. Maybe a close cousin.

I've had to stock up with a few second-hand spares before they get too pricey.

Might be a worth a bit in a few years!

Mark 'em up, sell 'em on, profit 😅