I just use the built-in email function that comes with mdadm. If a drive fails, I’ll know right away and replace it with a spare. You do need your server to be able to send emails with something like postfix.
If you have hardware RAID, there’s often a monitoring tool that comes with it or at the very least a command-line utility that can report the RAID state which you can then use in a script.
I managed to fit an entire Matrix Synapse server on one of those. It works surprisingly well! You will need a domain for it though.
I have two machines that back up to a local server using Borg. That whole server in turn backs up to Jottacloud using restic with encryption enabled.
By the way, I wouldn’t use rclone for backups. Use restic or something similar that does incremental backups. Because if you do rclone and then later discover that some files were corrupted locally, then your files are gone. With incremental backups you would still be able to retrieve them.
Oh, or do you mean backing up the stuff that is on the cloud?
There’s a protest coming up for this too (as well as to remember those killed and injured):
On Tuesday, October 22 join the active transportation community to remember those people using active transportation who have been killed or badly injured on Ottawa’s roads in the past several weeks, and to protest Queen’s Park’s anti-cyclist proposed bike lane law. Meet on the north side of City Hall at 110 Laurier Avenue West at 5 pm for a rally and then protest ride.