Yeah I think it will have to come to that, I am usually my own IT guy and did not want to bother our DevOps/IT guy which is loaded with other more important stuff.
But it will have to come to that once it becomes somewhat unbearable.
Will ask him for a backup policy though now that you point that out.
I my personal machine I got a btrfs volume just for that I could replicate that.
Daamn thx for the story time, hope that laptops start shipping with CAMM2 support instead of soldered ram.