This is the most simple solution and probably a lot safer than the alternatives. Another good option would be to use OpenVPN.

If a program screws up and crashes while writing data to your drive, it can take out more than just the data it was dealing with. RAID will simply destroy data on both your drives at the same time, making any data recovery impossible.

Someone on lemmy here suggested Restic, a backup solution written in Go.

I back up to an internal 4TB HDD every 30 minutes. My most important files are stored in an encrypted file storage online in the cloud.

Restic is good stuff.

So we’re going to do a forever protest on June 30 right?

Someone else mentioned this and I fixed the link. I wonder if the edit isn’t spreading to other instances for some reason.

Why can’t it just be a vanity instance that you use for yourself and friends, with most of your posting being done on larger instances? There’s at least one I’ve seen like this which seems to be private.

The easiest way would be to use gparted from a USB drive. It has an interface to do all this, as well as resize the cloned partition to fill the entire new drive.