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✨ New Monday morning routine ✨

– run diagnostics on #YunoHost
– manual backup, save it 2 two external drives + #ProtonDrive
– tweak #GoToSocial settings
– check my VPS's dashboard for resource usage

Gotta say, it's pretty empowering to run your own #Fediverse instance.

Wishing everyone a good day!

P.S.: #NoAdvice needed, I'm aware of #BorgBackup but this setup is perfect for a total Linux n00b like me, plus my VPS already does regular backups 🤗

#fediverse #YunoHost #gotosocial #protondrive #noadvice #borgbackup
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

leberschnitzel :ha:
leberschnitzel :ha:
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sounds like you got it all under control!
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Elena Rossini ⁂
Elena Rossini ⁂
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@leberschnitzel Thanks! Yes and no...

Now I need to figure out why my GoToSocial backup ballooned from 238MB (when I initially set it up) to 7.7GB (after a week of posting) 🕵️‍♀️

@leberschnitzel :ha:
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

leberschnitzel :ha:
leberschnitzel :ha:
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enjoy the search 🧐 maybe as reference: My mastodon DB with 1 user is 12GB, and my server has a very low content retention time (7 days for remote images)
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Elena Rossini ⁂
Elena Rossini ⁂
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@leberschnitzel Thanks! I need to clear the cache... I literally only posted 1 image and a handful of text posts... it doesn't warrant the 7 GB spike... unless it's caching the content by others that I see in my feed? 🤔

I also just turned on BridgyFed, so wonder if it's somewhat related

@leberschnitzel :ha:
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

leberschnitzel :ha:
leberschnitzel :ha:
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mastodon caches everything you see, that's why I've set my retention rate so low. But if you don't have a relay server connected like I have (something that "forcefully" connects you to other active servers) it shouldn't be that much. It could be that Bridgy Fed does that or that GoToSocial has something like that built in?
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Elena Rossini ⁂
Elena Rossini ⁂
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@leberschnitzel @mp thank you for the explanations. I will first try change the retention rate and see what happens. I was really surprised by the jump (280 MB -> 7 GB) in only one week...
@monkee :scawyduck: @leberschnitzel :ha:
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

Mario Sangiorgio
Mario Sangiorgio
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@leberschnitzel it does cache content by others. docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/… explains how it works.

By default it keeps 7 days worth of media in the cache so hopefully it should stabilise now

Media Caching - GoToSocial Documentation

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docs.gotosocial.org
@leberschnitzel :ha:
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

lgsp
lgsp
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Visto che sei lanciatissima, potresti provare anche snac, ancora più leggero di gotosocial!

Io non so se ce la farò mai...

Lo comosci già?

In fondo al link ci sono un paio di contatti utili

encrypted.tesio.it/2024/12/18/…


Come creare il tuo social network (con Snac)

Breve guida su come creare un'istanza del fediverso su uno shared hosting economico.
Giacomo Tesio
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Elena Rossini ⁂
Elena Rossini ⁂
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@lgsp ciao! no, non lo conosco... magari lo proverò tra qualche mese - ora sono impegnatissima. Ma grazie per il consiglio, è super interessante
@lgsp
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