I’ve had an R710 at the foot of my bed for the past 4 years and only decommissioned it a couple of months ago. I haven’t configured anything but I don’t really notice the noise. I can tell that it’s there but only when I listen for it. Different people are bothered by different sounds maybe?
Cloud is best for reliability, but a good option that sacrifices that reliability but keeps some security benefits is to put a reverse proxy on a VPS and connect just your servers by a VPN.
I have more experience with Restic so I’m more comfortable with it on servers, but the lock files don’t work properly on desktops that shutdown uncleanly.
Huh that’s interesting, thanks!