Question Help with backup options

[nibake]

I have struggled to find good info on backup and restore options. I would like to do a full phone backup directly to my computer. Any advice on the best method to do so? I am on Lineage 19-20220824-microG-Lemonade. It shows there are updates available, however this phone is in daily use so I don't want to risk so update-induced meltdown and would like to be ready with a good backup/recovery setup. I have been "using" seedvault with nextcloud but I don't trust it as it constantly throws errors, and I'm afraid if I were to try to restore from the seedvault backup and it were somehow corrupted I could be worse off than before.

Also, can I take the updates that are offered by the phone (OTA, I think) over the microg build or would I need to do a clean install of the latest microg ROM?
Thanks.

 

[nibake]

If anyone comes here, TWRP official doesn't work, but this does:

[RECOVERY][3.7.0-12.1][UNOFFICIAL][UNIFIED] TWRP with A12/A13 encryption support

This is an unofficial build of TWRP, based on the Android 12.1 branch, that supports encryption used by Android 12 and 13 ROMs. This build is tested on OP9pro but it was confirmed to work on OP9 with OOS 12 firmware installed. Other...

forum.xda-developers.com

 

[nibake]

After getting a backup to my PC, I felt safe enough trying the update directly via the LineageOS system interface, and it appears to have worked fine.

Now I wonder whether I should wait to go from 19.1 to 20.0