I’m more interested in cutting off-site backup costs, so my NAS has RAID mirror to reduce chance of total failure, and offsite backup only stores important data. I don’t even backup the bulk of it (ripped movies and whatnot), just the important data.
Restore from backup looks like this for my NAS:
Install OS + podman
Restore data from backup
Build and deploy containers from config
Personal devices are similar, but installing packages is manual (perhaps I’ll backup my explicitly stored package list or something to speed it up a little). Setup takes longer than your method, but I think it’s worth the reduced storage costs since I’ve never actually needed to do it and a few hours of downtime is totally fine for me.
Makes sense.
I’m more interested in cutting off-site backup costs, so my NAS has RAID mirror to reduce chance of total failure, and offsite backup only stores important data. I don’t even backup the bulk of it (ripped movies and whatnot), just the important data.
Restore from backup looks like this for my NAS:
Personal devices are similar, but installing packages is manual (perhaps I’ll backup my explicitly stored package list or something to speed it up a little). Setup takes longer than your method, but I think it’s worth the reduced storage costs since I’ve never actually needed to do it and a few hours of downtime is totally fine for me.