You could have a look at OVH and see if they have an image, whats your budget?

Yeah, but it’s relatively expensive. It’s easier to have a friend willing to let you set up a pc on their network that your server backs up to. Even better if you can do the same for them.

Folks, tell me if this is a good idea - OP gets a backblaze subscription. Backs up everything on that system - all the forgejo stuff, all the immich stuff, all the Arr content.

If/when stuff breaks, OP… gets a backblaze drive home with their stuff and returns it after reinstating their backups?

For mine, not TrueNAS, I boot to a live USB stick, so drives are not in use and do an full gparted copy to a back up drive, so it is a clone. Should the system die I swap the whole drive out.

I’m sure you have a backup and that you’ve tested restoring it. Just have another machine that is available in the case something happens to the first.

E.g. I somehow fried the motherboard of my server while cleaning it. It took me days to troubleshoot the issue.

But I also have an old laptop strapped to the back of my TV that is used to stream media using Kodi. When this event happened, I installed a more appropriate OS on the TV laptop and restored my backup and was up and running in an hour or two. Then I could take the time to troubleshoot my issue and resolve it on my main server.

Agree with others, if you try to do a replica it’s going to be very inefficient, and your costs will be high. You’re looking for a backup, then just nightly/weekly you perform your backups. Any blob storage then will do, just work out what pricing works for you. Just plan out how you’d do a restore in case everything came crashing down - from ground up how would you bring your services back online?

1st, definitely get backups offsite. Either cloud or drives at someone else’s home, but do that.

When (not if) something breaks you’ll need to fix it “now”

So, if you were intending on hosting a failover system in the cloud with Jellyfin, Adguard, Wireguard, etc. that won’t be a simple replica - you’ll need to redo your whole networking design.

IMHO, you’re better having physical spare parts / devices at home and focus on that.

If you’re running on an old PC, you’ll probably be better getting a newer, more efficient (lower electricity costs) - possibly smaller and quieter - device and moving stuff across… your old PC can then be the backup device.

I’d rather have a backup than a replica.

It’s cheaper to build a new server. Cloud… just isn’t cheap. Makes sense for accounting purposes and business reliability standards to a degree but not much for home use.

This happened to me:

1. I need a server for my Linux ISO backuos
2. i want to be able to automatically turn in a thing but only when it needs to be on. I guess i need Homeassistant.

Now my whole family relies on this underpowered house of cards.