Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
EXCITING “hikari runs her own instance” UPDATE!!!
my server ran out of disk space again and THIS time it took the database with it! i just had to restore the state of my server to what it was four days ago (last backup). four days of posts… gone. luckily none of them were good posts 😌
but now we're back. we're so back. or whatever. total downtime less than an hour probably? :p
i posted about it on the formerly birded side: https://twitter.com/hikari_no_yume/status/1747708548774076781
3 replies
FoxQuirk 🦊
(replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari It's interesting that I can still see some of the posts that you lost, I guess cause my instance caches them or something, but the direct link to the post gives a 404
Jordan
(replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari Thinking about git and distributed restoration. In theory I have all your public and unlisted posts, at least the non-replies! If only I could send them to you.
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to Jordan)
@jrose something like secure scuttlebutt could definitely gracefully recover in a situation like this
Jordan
(replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari Right, plain old ActivityPub doesn’t have any auth, so you’d have to trust that I’m not going to pretend you said “WIN AN IPAD FROM HIKARI REPLY HERE”
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to Jordan)
@jrose ActivityPub is obsessed with signatures but i guess the posts themselves aren't signed?
wait how the hell do reposts work then
Saagar Jha
(replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to Saagar Jha)
@saagar we must solve “catch up on the last few days of posts” alignment
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
hazards of running your own instance include not only media caches filling up your disk but also the log file filling up your disk!!