As the question states. I have the skiils and know how to setup a new instsnce and from looking through the documentation its relatively straight forward. Im just wondering would it actually help the fediverse and lemmy as a whole? There seems to already be plenty of instances to choose from. What are your guys thoughts?
what happens when you clear pictrs? you mean just deleting the folder? does that break stuff?
for comparison, my instance is only communities and no users (FAQ here: https://programming.dev/post/442419 )
it’s about 5 days old but not much activity
# du -h --max-depth=2 ./ 73M ./volumes/postgres 7.8M ./volumes/pictrs 8.0K ./volumes/lemmy-ui 81M ./volumes 81M ./the latest backup is only 7.4 MB zipped, I use this backup script
#! /bin/bash # https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/backup_and_restore.html#a-sample-backup-script now=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S") cd ~/lemmy && (docker-compose exec -T postgres pg_dumpall -c -U lemmy 1> dump.sql 2> dump.errors) cd ~/lemmy && zip -r9 ~/bak-lemmy-$now.zip ./ --exclude "volumes/postgres/*" rm -f ~/lemmy/dump.sqllike I said though, not much activity
and here’s how my backup zip files have grown in size over time
6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_03.00.01.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_06.00.01.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_09.00.01.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_12.00.01.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_15.00.01.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_18.00.01.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_21.00.01.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_00.00.02.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_03.00.01.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_06.00.01.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_09.00.01.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_12.00.01.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_15.00.01.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_18.00.01.zip 6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_21.00.01.zip 6.7M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_00.00.01.zip 6.7M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_03.00.01.zip 6.7M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_06.00.01.zip 6.7M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_09.00.01.zip 6.8M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_12.00.01.zip 6.8M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_15.00.01.zip 7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_18.00.01.zip 7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_21.00.01.zip 7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_00.00.01.zip 7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_03.00.01.zip 7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_06.00.01.zip 7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_09.00.01.zip 7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_12.00.01.zip 7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_15.00.01.zip 7.4M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_18.00.01.zipTested deleting the pictrs/files/001 which was at that point at ~150mb. And yes, it broke stuff. For example my Avatar and a local test community logo. To “purge” it, something would need to compare it to the database i guess. My size probably comes from /c/memes 😅
I thought remote images aren’t cached localy 🤔