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Test object storage (programming.dev)
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[–] Lodra 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So if you don't mind sharing, what happened?

[–] snowe 19 points 1 year ago

yeah in addition to that I'll do a full writeup, but had several problems

  1. lemmy-ansible had pict-rs set to 0.4.0, which is quite an old version, meaning migration couldn't occur concurrently (it was copying files to object storage sequentially)
  2. upon stopping the migration at one point and attempting to restart (on a newer pict-rs version) the server had completely filled up, so the migration could no longer continue on either version
  3. therefore I had to mount more block storage, copy the entire drive over to the block storage, in order to perform the migration.

there were lots more issues, but copying hundreds of gigs many times over is a cause to lot of the downtime.

[–] Ategon 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Site ran out of storage due to pict-rs storage growth (280GB) (pict-rs is used for images on lemmy) so was being migrated over to object storage today. Theres some posts about it over on the mastodon account https://mastodon.social/@programming_dev

[–] burtek 5 points 1 year ago

Wish I knew about this mastodon account earlier tbh

[–] Lodra 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the info! Thanks also for the link! I wasn't aware of the mastodon account 🙂

[–] cmeerw 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So that's 280 GB in roughly 5 months? At what rate is it growing now?

[–] Ategon 1 points 1 year ago

that would have to be something for snowe to answer since I dont know the numbers on that