Mint works well on my Thinkpads

Debian

It may be possible to create a UI using a monitoring program like Zabbix.

You could create a custom dashboard that displays all the stats that they need to see.

This of course would be for viewing only, not controlling the schedules, retention etc

I’ve never done it so I can’t say for certain.

I typically buy purpose built routers which advertise routing speed benchmarks

It’ll be hard to find one at that price. You may find something with a 2.5G NIC but whether or not it will actually route at line speed is highly unlikely.

Your best bet to keep prices low is to add a 2.5G NIC to an old PC. Even that may not work

Markor on Android and Obsidian on Desktop.

All synced with syncthing

Look at Mikrotik. Very affordable and extremely powerful. Only do this though if you know what you are doing with networking

All my devices use Syncthing via Tailscale to get my data to my server.

From there, my server backs up nightly to rsync.net via BorgBackup.

I then have Zabbix monitoring my backups to make sure a daily is always uploaded.

Ubuntu 22.04 base with a Plex docker container. ZFS as the file system on my host

Brother works incredibly well. Plug and play

Linux Mint is what I use and have no issues with my 3070.

Chimera OS might be something you can look into however I have not used it

Pop OS is also great for nvidia support

More ram 🐏

NPM is great! I even use it in a production environment at work for a small service and it works beautifully

I have a borg server in the office that takes backups of all my servers. Each server stores their applications backup that gets pulled into the repo. On top of that, the borg server pushes the backup to rsync.net.

All of this is monitored by my Zabbix server

Can you send you docker-compose file?

I use borgbackup + zabbix for monitoring.

At home, I have all my files get backed up to rsync.net since the price is lower for borg repos.

At work, I have a dedicated backup server running borgbackup that pulls backups from my servers and stores it locally as well as uploading to rsync.net. The local backup means restoring is faster, unless of course that dies.