Hey,
First of all, I'd like to say that I'm an absolute beginner who is interested in storing my media(movies, pictures, music) into my own servers. I also would like to add that all media will be for my own consumption, most likely running at home network only. I do however want to have the option to run some gaming servers such as minecraft/terraria if needed.
I just have a few questions, because all of this is new to me and I might sound like an idiot, but I really don't know:
1: Let's say I have a 10TB movie collection, and want to back it up, do I need another 10TB to back it up? Or do backups use less space?
2: What's a good beginner friendly method to backup all my media automatically once per month, so that I don't have to remind myself to do it?
3: Is something like a "mini-itx mobo+14100+16gb ram 1stick+256gb nvme for OS+1x8-16TB HDD" a good beginner setup? Or should I go with something like N100M or N100DC- setup? Or are there better options? My budget is around 500($550)€ excluding HDD
4: I hate windows and I want to slowly move away from it, so I don't really want to use Windows on my server. Is Debian 12 with GNOME DE a good choice for my server, or how about Proxmox? Or are there better alternatives?