Wipe upon death

[jriker1]

Ok morbid topic however I have a whole rack of servers in my basement running all kinds of stuff in my home. No one but me understands it. Family was wondering if something happened to me what they are supposed to do. My basic answer was turn them all off, call Comcast, and get a cable box connected to the tv and be done with it.

More I think probably better to wipe the devices and then they can do whatever with them. Any suggestions considering the systems are all raid the best way to stick in a cd or flash drive, reboot and have it just wipe everything or ask to wipe everything once it boots? Understand I may have to leave instructions how to boot from a flash drive but otherwise thoughts on a solution? The ability to mount the raid drives concern me.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

JR

 

[Smoblikat]

Use DBAN?

I think it supports RAID volumes, just keep a flash drive plugged in and give them instructions on how to set it as priority boot.

 

[Viper GTS]

IMO even DBAN is going to be too complicated for most non tech people.

If I were worried about it I would put together a list of IP addresses/passwords/access info, assign someone you know/work with who has the background to handle it, and let your family know to give that person the information.

This could be physical or something like Google's Inactive Account Manager. Then it's as simple as 'Hey guys if anything happens to me you'll get an email, print that out and take it to one of these three people they'll know what to do with it all.'

Viper GTS

 

[XavierMace]

Thermite seems like the easier solution.

 

[corkyg]

A ball peen hammer works fairly well.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

A ball peen hammer works fairly well.

Percussive maintenance always yields results.