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If you take charge of maintaining this system, maybe it would be easier to install HA supervised in a docker container and have another container for wireguard+syncthing.
A pi5 with 8gb should be enough unless your parents' HA is an hypertrophic installation with hundreds of devices.
Check out SFTPGo for backups.
Also, I wouldn't open any ports on your parents network other than for something like wireguard
I especially wouldn't expose home assistant to the internet, as it's quite lax on the security front.
As for RAM, 8gig will be more than enough unless they have an ungodly amount of smart devices. I'd stay away from a raspberry pi when deploying to an offsite location, as they're not very reliable long term. Get a NUC or something similar. I just picked up a gmktec n150/12gig soldered on amazon for like $130
Not sure if you've de-googled yourself or not but there is a Google Drive Addon that has a whole slew of options for backing up your HA config. I'm sure there are alternate HA add-ons. This may require HACS but not certain.