Looking for an easy to use solution to automatically run backups on about 500GB data on Windows to a HDD and cloud that will encrypt, compress, versioning, and other useful backup features. If I can learn how to get this to run smoothly, I may eventually build a NAS to hold my media too but for now this is what I'm thinking:
Full-image and user data backups, which I'll store on a cloud service. Not sure how often I'll run these backups yet, but there generally won't be many changes to my data on a daily basis. I'm already syncing this data between devices as well as backing up to HDD so should never or rarely need to download, just upload.
Image: I'm thinking of using free community Veeam for emergency image backups, basically in case I can't boot up anymore.
Files: Syncovery has caught my eye as a one time purchase for pushing file level backups to multiple places. It also has versioning and encryption etc in one. So I figured I can use it to push my user data file folders and the Veeam image backups to cloud and HDD. Are there better alternatives that have an easy GUI/learning curve?
Cloud storage: Hetzner and Backblaze B2 are recommended a lot on Reddit. Are they suitable for storing small amounts of data? I am also considering a lifetime sub to Pcloud or Koofr. Are they less/more suitable? Are the options straightforward to use?