Thanks for mentioning FOSS Browser, this looks nice

1 TB active, 2 TB Backup on my own storage and 2 TB Backup remote on internxt (lifetime plan).

Before being overly excited about their lifetime offerings (and discounts on such) getting the backups running reliably was a pain up until their last webdav update, so I would consider them with caution. Also I’m not sure they do another round discounts on their plans… at least their marketing mails said it was the last chance - but hey, that also might be a strategy to make you buy in.

Not using ZFS but a similar approach: All my data (paperless, and other docker container data) is encrypted with LUKS on a separate disk. The OS is running unencrypted on the SD card (using a Raspberry Pi). This way I can swap out the system and relink the docker container data if needed. Yes, I do need to unlock after a reboot, but since the system is fully up, that’s done easily via ssh.

Still looking into ways to unlock it automatically on certain criteria…

3 backups:

• phone data is synced to a nvme drive (1) which holds all the data of my homelab
• This nvme is backed up to a nvme (2) drive on the same device via backrest
• The nvme is also synced via Diplicati to a cloud storage provider (3)

2 locations: home and cloud

1… what was 1 again?

It works. You either have to link it with your mobile app or you use it standalone with a different user/id

I agree with this comment. As mentioned as answer in the post, to have a backup of these things is a big reason why I chose to selfhost. I had to switch devices (and operating systems) too many times. Moving data around everytime would be a hassle. To have all the important stuff not only stored but also organized and easy to access is very convenient and makes me stop worrying to accidentially lose my phone for example.

I just recently switched over to rpi-clone after doing backups of the booted SD with SD Card Copier, the GUI app on Raspberry OS.

The original version from billw2 didn’t work with modern OS versions. After doing some lookups in the issues and online, the users pointed to geerlingguy’s version, which seems to be maintained.

I’m not using rpi-clone-setup but rpi-clone sdX and after trying it for the first time, it worked. I swapped out the SD with the copy and the raspberry booted (it didn’t boot with billw2’s version).

Next step is to create a script for regular backups.

To your questions:

• Tried it, it works for my use-case
• rpi-clone asks for confirmation, which I need to address when trying to do backups automatically
• Have tried others but needed a working copy on a new SD card, so this is the solution I’m going with
• If you want a file you probably want to use dd. I’m aware of the space issue. I quickly looked up other tools: partclone and fsarchiver seem to address the free space issue, but I never tried them so I cannot speak to that.

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