Reinstalling my VPS

I’ve had a little VPS chugging away for a bit more than a year now. It runs this site, it runs calibre-web, miniflux, wireguard and a bunch of other stuff. This is a very much a “pets not cattle” machine, to reverse the common trope about treating servers as cattle rather than pets. I log into it directly. I administer to it by typing commands out and manually editing a bunch of files in /etc. I do have a couple docker containers on there but generally I try to avoid running things through docker if I can, I find them initially convenient but long term more annoying to maintain and debug. Old skool. I know that with the likes of ansible and/or nix one could make the whole more declarative and automated but honestly, I only have the one VPS, I’m not sure it makes sense. My backup strategy is… ok. I don’t fully follow the 3-2-1 rule1 because, again, I’m lazy and this is a hobby. I have restic setup to backup /etc and my home directory every night. It keeps a daily copy, a weekly copy…