Like most of these posts have said, it depends on what you’re trying to accomplish, how much you’re willing to spend, and how much time/effort you’re willing to put in.

1. If you’re mainly just looking to back things up for disaster recovery, a desktop external hard drive and a bash script to periodically move things would do fine

2. If you’re looking for something inexpensive to replace Google’s suite of cloud products NextCloud or TrueNas running on basically any old piece of hardware you have laying around/acquire from craigslist will work. Just know you’ll be doing a fair amount of configuration and management yourself

3. If you want to replace Google’s suite, don’t want to mess with maintenance/configuration as much, and are willing to spend some money, Synology sells plenty of ready made NAS devices with a suite of apps that may replace what you’re doing today

Totally agree there, I’m only aware it exists because I didn’t want to go through the hassle of setting up/maintaining either.

I assume “minimal” refers more to the fact that it won’t have all Omnivore features rather than it being uncomplicated to set up

So the title of the blog post is incorrect? I didn’t look at it super closely so apologies if I’m incorrect

Not sure if you were aware, you can run a minimal selfhosted Omnivore setup. Not sure if it will meet your needs or not