Our Ecoflow battery Vs Petrol generator.

Originally, when we chose to have some backup power for the house, In the event of an outage, I deliberately chose to only back up enough to make life in an outage more comfortable and not too try to power the whole house.
We chose Ecoflow battery storage instead of a petrol generator.
Petrol generators should be serviced every year, you need to check the oil level regularly, you need to run the unit outside because of the exhaust fumes, then there’s the noise. Loud, is going to draw attention to itself. Even the silent or quiet ones, aren’t.
You also need to run the unit regularly because modern fuel contains ethanol and that clogs up fuel lines. Then there’s run time, most generators that I’ve seen the owners manual for, state that the continuous run time is 8 hours or 10 hours. All of that is a bit of a faff.
An Ecoflow battery will run until it’s empty, could be an hour could be 14 hours, it depends what you plug into it.
I know a guy who has a petrol generator which he doesn’t run often enough and yes the fuel system has needed to be striped down and cleaned twice in 5 months. For me there’s also a potential problem, not being able to get more fuel when there’s major local disruption.
That doesn’t mean that petrol generators are not worth having now. Probably the best backup power system would be a mixed approach. Ecoflow battery for silent running, some solar panels to top it up or maybe even recharge it completely and a small petrol generator, to recharge the Ecoflow when solar isn’t working. You would only have to run the petrol generator for an hour as Ecoflow recharges very quickly.