You don’t need to use CF tunnels to get DDoS protection and to hide your IP. If you are using CF tunnels without being undee a CG-NAT then you are getting MITM’d for nothing.

I was waiting on the discount to pull the trigger… I guess I don’t really need it then since Duplicacy + Veeam works well.

Veeam agent for Windows is simple and works but it is quite limited in terms of retention policies. So I use Duplicacy for my backups and Veeam is there in case Duplicacy fails or I need an image based solution because Windows crashed.

I wanted Macrium because of it’s ability to boot from an image directly where I would have to do a reinstall if I used Veeam agent for Windows.

I think I could just use Veeam community edition for the more complicated retention policies and booting from an image but the time investment is inmense. You need a dedicated Windows server, an SQL server, I think paid hypervisors in order to boot from the image directly and then time and patience to dig through the bible length manual…

The overall failure for all these drives is so small that spending more money to lower failure rate by a negligible percentage is misguided and a waste of money.

Tandoor recipes is another good meal planning app. I picked it because it seemed to have more features than mealie at the time. Don’t know how it compares now.