Fun tip on restic for restoring or browsing snapshots. The restic mount command lets you mount your backups to your filesystem and that enables you to browse all your snapshots and all the files at different points in time all from your file manager. Then you can just drag and drop to restore files as needed.

How would it know you’re using a VPN?

I think they mean hosting their own VPN on their home network, not using any third party provider.

Thanks for sharing this looks great!