

The key here being that you actually remember the file exists, because it’s important. Some other random spreadsheet you don’t even remember exists because you haven’t needed it since forever is probably not all that important to backup.
If you loose something without ever realizing you lost it, it was not important so there would be no reason to make a backup.

Tdarr can distribute compute to other nodes, so you could set it up on your server and have your workstation do the actual transcoding.