I’m writing is as an author who lost all her work after a hard disk failure. Please make sure to make a daily backup of the site on a USB!

Better safe than sorry.

  • NeshuraMA
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    11 year ago

    Backups are planned (in 1-2 years I guess), for now the data should be good as the server drive is brand new.

    • @ludrolMA
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      21 year ago

      What if I or you accidentally delete something like yesterday. We should have at least one back up.

      • NeshuraMA
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        21 year ago

        Good point, having at least one (daily) backup would reduce that risk. For now though it’ll have to be on the same disk so not as good as I’d like it

        • NeshuraMA
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          31 year ago

          Update: lemmy kindly provides a backup script in their documentation, I’ll just have to tweak it and set up a backup folder/server to store it on (the last part will help move the backups to a separate device once I…

          I’ll type this down live: I have a separate devoce I can use for backups, it’s just in a drawer…

          I’ll set up backups properly (different device and drive) on the weekend, until then it’s DB digging if we encounter any issues