I mean arguably its the best and easiest place to take him out. There’s not really a reason to keep him alive unless you really are in an Evil campaign.
Restic is another option, but it’s a little less user friendly and is all CLI, if i recall correctly. However I’m pretty sure you can send backups straight to a server via Restic.
A fan of Zizek film analysis? That’s definitely one of his positions, related to how much post-apocalyptic media still portrays capitalism in practice post-apocalypse.