I see, thanks for clearing that up. In my situation, keeping a few terabytes on 3 hard drives and backing up to a reliable cloud copy (not sync, as you mentioned) is good enough for me. Optical media is impractical with the amount of data, and tape drives far too expensive for just a few TBs.

Whatever you decide to do, please implement 3-2-1 backups (3 backups: 2 backups offline, 1 offsite). This will cost more obviously, but family data is important and its safety shouldn’t be skimped on.

Besides the lack of custom domain support Posteo is cheap and great. Stellar support team.

Toți fură la un moment dat. They all steal at some point. Peer pressure from their colleagues, most of which corrupt, influence this as well. As others said, at some point it becomes normal for the person, thinking they’re doing something right, especially when they argument that “it’s for the family”

I keep notes as wiki-like pages. It’s incredibly useful to have specific, contextual documentation that makes sense to me. I can share it to people as well, but that takes some molding.