• With Nextcloud you have the option to encrypt the data at rest Nextcloud - Encryption.
• it’s the same as hosting your Google Drive, you juste have to create different user and it won’t be shared between user, except if you share them…
• for backups, I would suggest you look at eather Plugins or do your own rsync. If you go serious about this, donc forget the 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
• To have access as network drive, theirs always the possibility to install it as a Desktop app. Or you could mount a network drive with Nextcloud and use it as an ‘interface’ to see the drive.

As for a guide… Google, YouTube is your friend… Theirs those if you want to start

• Nextcloud with S3 Object Storage | How To Set Up on Linode
• Nextcloud: Complete Setup Guide

My personal advice, if you setup as a docker, use an external database and not the one provided within the docker, it might break when you’ll update Nextcloud.

I have a Nextcloud instand. I find that bookmark work great.

Plus it sync the books marks of my browser!

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/bookmarks

Or, if you don’t pay for the product, you are the product.

I did the same, but I started from my list of run scripts… I used ChatGPT to create them, took 2 minutes…

use chatgpt for that… It can also create your ansible task…