<div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><span>hi ~</span><div><br></div><div><span>we've had another borg session today for/with jean</span></div><div><br></div><div><span>last time the reason for borg backup failing was a changing postgress directory files {in the process of borg running}, which we've solved by excluding it from the backup script</span></div><div><span> </span></div><div><span> --exclude /var/lib/postgresql/</span></div><div><span> </span></div><div><span>now we do database dump {pg_dump} of the mastodon database at the beginning of the script and then backup the static dump file</span></div><div><br></div><div><span>but still borg script kept failing as redis.rdb and log files are also changing during the backup process {we didn't have these issues on adele since we are not hosting anything as `active` as mastodon there}, so went with the similar solution</span></div><div><br></div><div><span> --exclude /var/log/</span></div><div><span> </span></div><div><span> && copied redis dump file inside /tmp and included that file in the backup script</span></div><div><br></div><div><span>and yet, hold-your-horses, we saw that changes in /home/mastodon/live/public/system/ directory, specifically media attachments directory we causing borg trouble {i suppose someone made a media post while borg was running} and so,</span></div><div><br></div><div><span> --exclude /home/mastodon/live/public/system/</span></div><div><span> </span></div><div><span> && for the testing purposes we have skipped pg_dump action</span></div><div><span> </span></div><div><span>and soon enough jean emailed us >> `jean backups arrived safely in leverburns server!` <3<br></span></div><div><span> </span></div><div><span>/home/mastodon/live/public/system/ is where the following directories live :: accounts cache custom_emojis media_attachments</span></div><div><span>it <span>currently weighs <span>181G</span> </span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span> ./ as previously communicated, as it is an ever-growing directory would be worth devising a policy of how {long} we retain media from {federated instances} on our server; maybe this can be discussed within .` systertown `. mailing list / meetings and then we can have appropriate way to address it technically when it comes to server space and backups.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span>we also have a few observations to share with systertown `workgroup`</span></div><div><span> ./ we still have a default elephant logo of mastodon; wld be great to swap it with something that reflects systerserver</span></div><div><span> ./ if you go to systerserver.town when you are logged out, by default you are redirected to `explore` page which is displaying 2 posts from the most active members within our federation, which doens't acurately represent our instance. maybe instead of `explore` we cld be landing on `about`/`code of conduct` page</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span> </span></div><div><span>-----------------------------------------------------.+++++++++==</span></div><div><span>rest of the trajectory remains the same :: once we are done with jean backup todo's, let's restore adele backup situation</span></div><div><span> _-/ upgrade debian</span></div><div><span> _-/ install tinc</span></div><span> _-/ install dropbear if it's still possible</span><br></div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;">we will hear soon from mur.at abt the status of adele backup they are doing.<br></div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;">~`` `ezn<br></div>
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<p><b>we will meet FRIDAY 14/02 - 11:00</b></p>
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<p>-- fix the issue which didn't work in backup</p>
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<p> -- start debian- update adele - <br>
DOCU UPGRADE<br>
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