Something like this is really hard to make a gui for. I suppose a GUI would only be useful for discovering config values?

Either way, a gui would likely look like YAST on OpenSuse.

He addresses it in another video, but there isn’t a single rights holder. There are 3 that each own different parts of the game. He tried contacting them but none responded.

Great! I just tiled a part of my basement (first time doing tiles) because we replace the hot water tank with a tankless.

Since it mounts on the wall I had to remove the old cracked tiles under the tank and put in new ones. It was pretty straightforward but I found wiping the grout to be really messy and not as easy as it seemed in the videos. Using the tile saw as also daunting but I got it done.

You could try something S3 based, and do backups by date?

For example, export a subset of the DB and name it accordingly (ie. 2025-04-to-2025-01.tar).

If you do that there are a lot of pretty cheap S3 providers (like Wasabi).

S3 interfaces nicely with RCLONE so you can move providers etc and pull it really quickly.

As an aside, when I looked into something like this the thing that made me hesitate was the time and cost for retrieval from cold storage (like amazon glacier) outweighed the savings.

Any x86 machine will do.

If u have an old desktop with some drives sleds in it that’s more than enough.

Synology seems to be the go to brand for most folks. They have a solid OS and take their security pretty seriously.

If you want to have more fun you could grab a small x86 NAS (ugreen/terramaster) and flash it with truenas.

Nope, it seems to just work!

I’ve found it best to avoid the pacman repo. It can leave my system in such a weird inbetween state. Seeing as you mostly want codecs I tend to prefer flatpaks for VLC, Firefox, etc.

If you insist on pacman, just wait. If you try to dup and have a conflict it means that either pacman or suse repos aren’t all updated so hold on a few days and you should be able to dup with no issues.