5 points
I kinda got lucky. I wanted to install a new, bigger SSD. At the same time, I had been wanting to start doing backups, but was too lazy to set it up. Two birds, one stone. Set up backups, tested it by copying everything to the new SSD. Everything worked first try!
I used rsnapshot for backups. I made a little container that spins up, pulls my data, then shuts down. And then I made a script that does that and made cron jobs for it.