My cloud backup method is running Restic inside any VMs or Containers with important data (I use Backrest to manage it easily).
The reason is I don't want to be backing up caches, logs, and other junk that isn't important to cloud storage, since it's just wasted storage space and bandwidth.
It's pretty easy, you can browse files in an LXC backup and restore specific parts. For VMs you can just restore the whole VM and copy out what you need.
I back up all the directories and docker-compose files using Restic (via Backrest) stored on Backblaze B2, and also the whole Docker LXC via Proxmox's backup function to a local HDD.
There's a chance some databases could be backed up in an unusable state, but I keep like 30-50 snapshots going back months, so I figure if the latest one has a bad DB backup, I could go back another day and try that one.
I also don't really have irreplaceable data stored in DBs, stuff like Immich has data in a DB that would be annoying to lose, but the photos themselves are just on the filesystem.
For testing Restic I pull a backup and just go through and check some of the important files.
Proxmox backup is really easy to test, as it just restores the whole LXC with a new ID and IP that I can check.
I would just make an IG account if it's being a large obstacle, you probably don't have to install the app as you can do most things through the web browser.
I've always liked Fedora or its various derivatives like Bazzite. They seem to have defaults that make sense, and fairly up to date software.
I also find dnf on Fedora to be a bit nicer and more streamlined compared to apt, and I've heard it's significantly easier to package software for dnf as well.
Yep, without a restart anything running will be the old version until the process is restarted (or the whole system is).
You'll also probably want to do a flatpak update along with dnf upgrade
Probably something 7th gen Intel or newer so you can use Quicksync for transcoding on Jellyfin and HW accel on Immich for ML, face recognition, resizing, etc..
Tons of 7th/8th gen PCs pulled from offices on ebay, if you do some creative mounting inside a Midtower (MT) sized one you can fit a couple 3.5" drives and 2.5" SSDs.
Yeah fair, most of my bookmarks aren't really things that are important to save, just funny things I want to share later or something.
Yeah bookmarks are a lot better than using specific save systems
NP! That's how I do it on proxmox, I'll start the VM every so often and update it. Only takes a few seconds to clone so it's nice and quick to do.
Simple method is just keep a ready to go VM and clone it.
Yeah, I have local proxmox backups to an external HDD for stuff like "oops I broke it" or a drive failure, but the online backups are for something catastrophic like the house burned down with the server in it, so I'm not particularly worried about them being more work to restore.