Good morning Fedi friends
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Good morning Fedi friends!
Monday mornings mean: my weekly ritual of manually backing up my #YunoHost installation (my VPS does automatic daily backups of the whole VPS, but I say: better safe than sorry).
This latest backup is pretty big, because of my increased use of #NextCloud. So in reverse order, from biggest to smallest we have:
1) #GoToSocial : 5.8 GB
2) #PeerTube : 4.3 GB
3) #NextCloud: 3.7 GB
4) #Pixelfed : 1.6 GB
5) #LinkStack : 92 MB
6) #Fail2Ban : 362kb
Happy #selfhosting everyone! And in case you missed it, my self-hosting guide for newbies via YunoHost is available here: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/ (with 4 articles so far).
Have a great week everyone!
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Good morning Fedi friends!
Monday mornings mean: my weekly ritual of manually backing up my #YunoHost installation (my VPS does automatic daily backups of the whole VPS, but I say: better safe than sorry).
This latest backup is pretty big, because of my increased use of #NextCloud. So in reverse order, from biggest to smallest we have:
1) #GoToSocial : 5.8 GB
2) #PeerTube : 4.3 GB
3) #NextCloud: 3.7 GB
4) #Pixelfed : 1.6 GB
5) #LinkStack : 92 MB
6) #Fail2Ban : 362kb
Happy #selfhosting everyone! And in case you missed it, my self-hosting guide for newbies via YunoHost is available here: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/ (with 4 articles so far).
Have a great week everyone!
#MySoCalledSudoLifeBacking up things is pretty standard / low stakes.
But I just noticed that virtually ALL the apps on my #YunoHost system have available updates, which means... the hair-raising, palpitations-inducing, let's say a little prayer practice of creating a snapshot of my VPS (easy peasy) and clicking on "Upgrade" by order of importance.
#Fail2Ban and #LinkStack were pretty low stakes - done, no sweat. Plus I love how YunoHost creates backups before upgrading, so you can always revert back if something goes wrong.
Anyway, Pixelfed now and then my sacred triad of GoToSocial, NextCloud and PeerTube.
Wish me luck! 🥵
EDIT: newbie me is more advanced than even I would think so... I'm checking out GitHub's YunoHost page for each app I want to upgrade. Apparently the Pixelfed package has issues so I'm not touching that 😅
Reference: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/pixelfed_ynh/issues
Now checking out the other apps...
#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting -
Backing up things is pretty standard / low stakes.
But I just noticed that virtually ALL the apps on my #YunoHost system have available updates, which means... the hair-raising, palpitations-inducing, let's say a little prayer practice of creating a snapshot of my VPS (easy peasy) and clicking on "Upgrade" by order of importance.
#Fail2Ban and #LinkStack were pretty low stakes - done, no sweat. Plus I love how YunoHost creates backups before upgrading, so you can always revert back if something goes wrong.
Anyway, Pixelfed now and then my sacred triad of GoToSocial, NextCloud and PeerTube.
Wish me luck! 🥵
EDIT: newbie me is more advanced than even I would think so... I'm checking out GitHub's YunoHost page for each app I want to upgrade. Apparently the Pixelfed package has issues so I'm not touching that 😅
Reference: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/pixelfed_ynh/issues
Now checking out the other apps...
#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting@elena you’ve got this 💜
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@elena you’ve got this 💜
@ciara thank you! 😅
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Backing up things is pretty standard / low stakes.
But I just noticed that virtually ALL the apps on my #YunoHost system have available updates, which means... the hair-raising, palpitations-inducing, let's say a little prayer practice of creating a snapshot of my VPS (easy peasy) and clicking on "Upgrade" by order of importance.
#Fail2Ban and #LinkStack were pretty low stakes - done, no sweat. Plus I love how YunoHost creates backups before upgrading, so you can always revert back if something goes wrong.
Anyway, Pixelfed now and then my sacred triad of GoToSocial, NextCloud and PeerTube.
Wish me luck! 🥵
EDIT: newbie me is more advanced than even I would think so... I'm checking out GitHub's YunoHost page for each app I want to upgrade. Apparently the Pixelfed package has issues so I'm not touching that 😅
Reference: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/pixelfed_ynh/issues
Now checking out the other apps...
#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting@elena i think you're ready to graduate to hosting with docker containers in a vanilla Linux distribution (debian is perfectly adequate) with automated nightly backups. Then your weekly ritual can become: have the backups run ok those last days? Yes, okay, moving on. (Plus, sometimes, check the backups actually work, of course).
I enjoyed yunohost as well, but in the end, there's nothing like deploying docker containers (usually takes a minute to try a new one... If everything goes well) -
Backing up things is pretty standard / low stakes.
But I just noticed that virtually ALL the apps on my #YunoHost system have available updates, which means... the hair-raising, palpitations-inducing, let's say a little prayer practice of creating a snapshot of my VPS (easy peasy) and clicking on "Upgrade" by order of importance.
#Fail2Ban and #LinkStack were pretty low stakes - done, no sweat. Plus I love how YunoHost creates backups before upgrading, so you can always revert back if something goes wrong.
Anyway, Pixelfed now and then my sacred triad of GoToSocial, NextCloud and PeerTube.
Wish me luck! 🥵
EDIT: newbie me is more advanced than even I would think so... I'm checking out GitHub's YunoHost page for each app I want to upgrade. Apparently the Pixelfed package has issues so I'm not touching that 😅
Reference: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/pixelfed_ynh/issues
Now checking out the other apps...
#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting@elena GtS upgrades/updates are so piece-of-cake. They do a terrific job making them absolutely painless.
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@elena GtS upgrades/updates are so piece-of-cake. They do a terrific job making them absolutely painless.
@patpro yes indeed! I’m so grateful to tobi and the whole GoToSocial team 🙏
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@elena i think you're ready to graduate to hosting with docker containers in a vanilla Linux distribution (debian is perfectly adequate) with automated nightly backups. Then your weekly ritual can become: have the backups run ok those last days? Yes, okay, moving on. (Plus, sometimes, check the backups actually work, of course).
I enjoyed yunohost as well, but in the end, there's nothing like deploying docker containers (usually takes a minute to try a new one... If everything goes well)@PierricD sorry but I’m not at all interested in Docker. Tinkered with it last year but I’m really afraid for security reasons and stuff…
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Backing up things is pretty standard / low stakes.
But I just noticed that virtually ALL the apps on my #YunoHost system have available updates, which means... the hair-raising, palpitations-inducing, let's say a little prayer practice of creating a snapshot of my VPS (easy peasy) and clicking on "Upgrade" by order of importance.
#Fail2Ban and #LinkStack were pretty low stakes - done, no sweat. Plus I love how YunoHost creates backups before upgrading, so you can always revert back if something goes wrong.
Anyway, Pixelfed now and then my sacred triad of GoToSocial, NextCloud and PeerTube.
Wish me luck! 🥵
EDIT: newbie me is more advanced than even I would think so... I'm checking out GitHub's YunoHost page for each app I want to upgrade. Apparently the Pixelfed package has issues so I'm not touching that 😅
Reference: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/pixelfed_ynh/issues
Now checking out the other apps...
#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting#YunoHost App Upgrades - Progress Report:
I successfully upgraded all the apps EXCEPT for PeerTube and Pixelfed because of reports of bugs/failures on their respective GitHub pages.
PeerTube: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/peertube_ynh/issues
Pixelfed: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/pixelfed_ynh/issues
I will wait another week for #PeerTube since my channel is so essential, running the Fediverse promo video and all...
I haven't been using Pixelfed all that much but I don't wanna break anything, so I will keep it as it is.
Life of a self-hoster: never a dull day 😅
#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting