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PSA: Uploading any pictures will fail until end of migration (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We have to move to object storage to have efficient image storage. We are currently at 70% of our disk storage.

We are sorry for the short notice and we don't know how long it will take though we believe it will take multiple hours.

Small post mortem :

The migration required us to be down - we thought we could run without images
It took much longer than initially anticipated
It broke at close to 2:30AM - 3 hours into the migration and I couldn't fix it so the server has been down doing nothing for hours now
We're booting back up from the backup made before the migration was attempted, we'll try another strategy.

There might've been some data loss in images, we're looking into it. In the meanwhile, if your profile picture or banner is broken, feel free to re-upload them.

Update :

Hi Beeple!

We're trying this again.

This time, Beehaw should remain available though no pictures will be able to be uploaded. The error will likely be weird because Lemmy will think it is possible but we will block the upload from happening.

We'll take a snapshot of the pictures before the migration in 60 minutes at 21:00 UTC - it should take around one hour, do the migration and testing on our own before shipping on Beehaw.

Once we've resolved all these kinks, Beehaw will momentarily go down and then back up with the migration complete without losing any old pictures.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. Be patient. Assume that when Fediverse stuff is not working exactly right, it's not you, it's probably the Fediverse. These are early days of self-organized effort, like thousands of people trying to lash rafts and boats together in the middle of the ocean. They're busy trying to make sure the whole thing doesn't sink - don't worry about the photos.

With kindness, I very much suggest against dismissing both the technology and your ability to understand it by calling it "mumbojumbo". Don't let the engineers make this stuff something only they can understand and work with.