@vkc For me running backup is a manual process - where I check my cloud and external backup every time and I try to remember to change password for the encryption once a month

A few years back I had it running as a cron job, with an email notification - but after a while I usually get infected with notification blindness and suddenly I realize - often when adding new things to the backup script or tidying up - why haven't I heard anything from the server for weeks ? But I've been incredible lucky in the past, only my desktop system drives seems to die on me.