I’m having a good experience with cloudflare, using ddclient on a cron job

To clarify: it doesn’t matter much what your router supports if you have a server with ddclient (possibly in Docker container). Then you can choose whatever provider you’d like, and there are tons of resources on ddclient.

I use:

• 3-way zfs mirror for important data like photos, documents
• snapraid for bulky and less important data like movies
• hourly backup of important data and a subset of the less important data (difficult to find movies) to a rpi with a big disk
• daily backup of the same data to a friend. We have a system where we put a hdd in each other’s server and have ssh access

Backups are done using restic

Off-site rather than offline, protecting against things like your house burning down.

Because it’s easy. For other services I use nixos containers, but for immich Docker was just so simple

https://kressle.in/articles/2023/immich-on-docker-with-nixos.php This works for me