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It might take a while to let the pain go and move on and that's fine, just actually back up next time XP just automate the process and generally set and forget. If you can't afford the expensive off-site backup you could do something similar to my overkill redundancies:

• NUC sitting on my desk with Nextcloud on it. Freefilesync two way sync of project directory executed automatically at 1am or 3am (can't remember which and too lazy to look it up right now). Small enough to grab and shove in a bag in an emergency (though I don't know how healthy runking it off power while it's running would be x_x). This is a two way sync as I occasionally need to work remotely
• two external hard drives, one connected to my computer, the other living at my aunty's house. At 1am or 3am (whenever the NUC isn't), Freefilesync update sync of entire home directory (if you want historic backups, get it to version files instead of directly updating them, but that will get real big real fast unless you're deleting really old backups). The drives get swapped whenever I go visit my aunty

I still want a raid at some stage (though it's much less pressing now that I have the NUC) xP but I haven't been able to find the small two drive one I saw once, just 4-6 drive monstrosities.

On the bright side the changes that have been made are looking good :)