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 🤔
I think it might just be thumbnails that are cached locally? And obviously your own banner and local images
Looks like random? Both images are from meme@lemmy.ml didn’t post on any of these 2 threads. It would be nice to know why sometimes its get copied. https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/b2e8d1e4-b638-4d04-9710-9fa28756261d.jpeg?format=webp https://lemmy.gwa.app/pictrs/image/962b1734-d524-468c-b3f9-4d615f91f094.png?format=webp
The interesting thing is, both posts originated from .world and when opened from the original sources are also hosted the.
https://lemmy.world/post/1318708
https://lemmy.gwa.app/post/1437
https://lemmy.world/post/1348802
https://lemmy.gwa.app/post/2310