Comment on Migrating images to object storage, images will be inaccessible for a bit
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 weeks agoOn a lighter note, it would take far longer if you delayed it! Just imagine some years from now, the amount of data being transferred!
Sal@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Exactly! It is something that I wanted to do over a year ago, but I was not sure how… Pretty much all my knowledge about servers comes from setting up and trying not to break a lemmy instance, so this was another lesson that I was a bit scared to learn 😂 It turns out that it was very simple as the pict-rs (Lemmy’s image backend) developer made a robust migration tool that automates this process. But since I don’t know that beforehand, I need to triple check backups and read the instructions several times in preparation so even if it is easy and the hard work has been done by others it still requires some focus.