Nothing like vacation to do and go back to my backup routine and improve it a bit. I mainly put everything in a script, added the the status and scrub of the backup_freenas_rsync script by K. Raquel Sanborn. In the script I do not try to handle all contingencies, simply to be careful, and bail out with a helpful error message if things are strange, assuming that then manual intervention will be required.

My Freenas setup Having a good network storage to share the files one has at home is a very useful thing. I have used for several years freenas, it is free, open source, built on the top of open zfs arguably one of the first new generation files systems with lots of nice enterprise features: snapshots, checksums for everything, growable volumes, configurable redundancy… It might be a bit more work, configuration than ready made solutions like synology, but it works well.