I have daily image backups of the OS drives with a history of 60-90 days.
my Windows is also stable, except when the SSD kills itself upon a sudden power loss…
we don’t backup. when our HDD goes wrong, we just post on r/DataHoarder
.rar with 10% recovery record
use USB 3 dock. USB 2 is slow.
please ask this every day
that’s the difference between the paid software, where the user-friendliness is the priority, and the open-source software, where the functionality is the priority.
Also check netdata which has an exceptional baseline config, you can instantly use it without any need to fiddle with the settings. Of course it will need some config later if you want to to go fancy, but it is instantly usable.