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Is port forwarding to a home server a bad idea?
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It is a decision, not a mistake, but the safe version has three parts: no admin interfaces exposed, automatic updates on whatever is exposed, and a separate VLAN so a compromise does not reach the rest of the house. A VPN or a tunnel avoids all three questions, at the cost of client setup.
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What is the minimum backup for a home server?
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The data volumes and the compose files, nothing else. Containers are rebuildable; the database and the uploads are not. A nightly restic snapshot to a second machine plus a weekly copy offsite covers the realistic failure modes: disk death, deletion, and theft.