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I have limited my usecases for selfhosting and thrown money at the problem. The usecases are:
The last one is expendable. The first three are backed up into the cloud. I use a Synology, thus throwing money at the problem. Their cloud backup just works.
Edit: use cases I do not self host are a mail server for example. The stress outweighs the 12€/year I pay for the service.
Snapshots are the first line of defense for recovery from software errors. For hardware use ZFS raid.
That still isn't a proper backup. Have a separate backup that can not easily be destroyed.
@iso@lemy.lol I think we need to accept that unless self-hosting is your full time job, things can and will break. At some point you have to accept it and let it go.
Finally I know when I die, my spouse won't take care of my homelab and servers, all of it will go to the recycler.