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0 pointsgreenyouse7y ago0 comments

There wasn't much to the paper archiving. I bought a fancy scanner[0] and already had a shredder.

To store the files on disk I keep directories marked by topic/year/month/day. The topics are stuff like taxes, finances, bills, etc. The important documents are in a couple encrypted HDDs that I use for backups. I've been thinking of doing an offsite storage like Backblaze B2 but it's probably overkill.

After scanning stuff in, everything gets shredded. There usually aren't many things to save but once they've been scanned they're there forever.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-ScanSnap-iX500-Duplex-Scanner...

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jacekm7y ago

Offsite backup is not an overkill! Your HDDs can be lost in burglary, water or fire. B2 is cheap, go for it, you may regret not having offsite backup one day. And it does not require much effort, tools like Duplicati can automatically encrypt the data and send it to B2.

stef257y ago

Won't you ever need an original document? Like something with a signature on it.

I'd love to do this as well but I'm sure at some point in the future I'll hear "sorry this won't do, we need the original".