Also, you might want to put the backups in a dedicated partition or drive if you can, so you'd just have to reinstall pbs in case it get bad.
Yea that's the main plan, the laptop would hold the PBS system, but all backups would go straight to the NAS. if the laptop dies I can just find something else to put PBS on with minimal hassle.
This is my exact setup! I love symfonium because it lets me download specific playlists that I want to have at all times (in case of bad cell service), and feishin for my laptop/desktop where offline downloads aren't a concern.
I am still keeping an eye on Tempus though, if it gets good enough I might swap over since it'd be one less google play store app.
I just use a WireGuard VPN. Makes it so much more simpler. At this point I don't think I'll ever expose anything to the public internet, seems like too much of a headache.
If you go with a subsonic server like navidrome, you could pair that with something like Symfonium (paid, and only available on google play unfortunately). That's what I do currently, until something better comes along (Tempus is starting to look nice!)
Installing Grapheneos has been fantastic for the last several months since I made the jump. It quite literally took longer for the phone to update Google's Android out of the box than for me to rip that shit out and install Grapheneos lol.
I'll say the best thing about it is the flexibility to your level of security needs. You can completely run it exactly as you would a normal Android phone, or you could go balls to the wall and have separate user accounts for different services and only use non-google play store apps. I personally chose not to have separate user accounts because while they will show notifications, it doesn't allow (at least not that I could figure out) you to show the content of said notifications. It was immediately annoying as I don't want to sign into another account just to find out it was a notification I didn't care about.
I went with a SciFi ship theme, my main server is VMS-HORIZON (Virtual Machine Ship). The VMs have ship component names like AUDIO-CORE (navidrome) and VISUAL-CORE (Immich).
My Raspberry Pi is named ORBITER, like a orbiting shuttle/satellite, and the VM it has is called BEACON (for Gotify)
I know, I only kid. Tbh I'm actually somewhat considering trying it out, I've been on Bazzite for a few months now after distro hopping a bunch, but I've heard good things and I'm curious now lol
You found a fantastic band to get into! My wife and I are bummed Ghost's current tour is done, we went to four of them because the production value of their latest tour was so damn good.
I hope no one would crucify you for it, you're just trying to help :). I have a plan for offsite backups, but it's nice to know about alternatives.