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As you mentioned Immich, Nextcloud and Radicale - don't forget to make regular backups. If you haven't automated them, that's your next project now ;)
Yes, back up your stuff regularly, don’t be like me and break your partition table with a 4 month gap between backups. Accomplishing 4 months of work in 5 hours is not fun.
that seems quite important, I’ll do that then!
Just a quick add on: not only do and automate backups - do also test them every now and then.
And don't think that you can just back up using a file-copy process. These things have databases that also need to be backed up. It's not as simple as it first seems.
Source: been selfhosting for an embarrassingly long time without any backup!
How do I set up backups for Immich, Nextcloud, and Radicale? I see lots of different options, I can't pick!
I only host Nextcloud in an old setup (read pure PHP, MariaDB, Apache - no docker, etc.)
That server is set-up to be snapshotted daily. Also there's a script running about 30 min before each snap shot that will also dump the database to disk (as otherwise the snapshot might contain a random state of the database). It's not perfect, but it works - also because everything of this is done in the night, when I do not use the system, so chances are really low, that the snapshot of the disk and the database dump in it are not desynchronized too much.
I do not know what's the best practice for a modern Nextcloud setup with docker is or how to handle the other two...