jq is mot custom syntax though, it is just JSONPath standarsld. Which is also used to query JSON in JSON fields in MySQL for instance.

What do you mean live? Sorry, I’m still quite new to this…

I’m not sure exactly what your setup is, if you have data in the OS pool that might be gone, unless you can boot the system from a stick and mount that disk to copy data over. Zpool export isn’t strictly necessary.

If your data is in a different pool then it should be theoretically easy to just import that pool in a new install.

Hmm I think RAID5 would be risky. If I have a 16TB array and then get a failure, resilvering would take long and that could bring a second disk down…

That is true, but I was indeed not counting it as such, I currently just have the cloud as a backup.

I understand, but I was thinking, since I have a cloud backup, if my drive(s) fail I cam still always recover, correct?

Yes definitely! It is personal data like family videos, photo’s and documents mostly. I’m using this nextcloud for the whole family.