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Makes sense.
I'm more interested in cutting off-site backup costs, so my NAS has RAID mirror to reduce chance of total failure, and offsite backup only stores important data. I don't even backup the bulk of it (ripped movies and whatnot), just the important data.
Restore from backup looks like this for my NAS:
Personal devices are similar, but installing packages is manual (perhaps I'll backup my explicitly stored package list or something to speed it up a little). Setup takes longer than your method, but I think it's worth the reduced storage costs since I've never actually needed to do it and a few hours of downtime is totally fine for me.