The Story
I configured my Raspberry Pi to run a Bitcoin node plus a lightning node on the same machine, I spent quite a bit on installation and configuration to have it just as I wanted it, and the next logical step is to create backups of the microSD and my external drive.
I didn’t use a raid external drive because I wanted it to be the most basic setup possible, a 2T small external drive, plus a 512 GB microSD.
In addition to these full backups, I have it automatically backing up the important state information of my lightning node channels and LNbits state databases.
So in reality, the purpose of these full backups is to not have to install and configure everything from scratch if a catastrophe happens. I will still have to complement these backups with the additional recurring state backups.