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  • twack@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldOn the importance of backups
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    5 months ago

    ZFS is fantastic and it can indeed restore files that have been encrypted as long as you have an earlier snapshot.

    However, it would not have helped in this scenario. In fact, it might have actually made recovery efforts much more difficult.

    It could have helped by automatically sending incremental snapshots to a secondary drive, which you could then have restored the original drive from. However, this would have required the foresight to set that up in the first place. This process also would not have been quick; you would need to copy all of the data back just like any other complete drive restoration.


  • I was about to ask why this is better than the docker installation, but I see step one is to install docker haha.

    I’ve been running the docker container for a long time, it works very well. It is a bit more complicated if you try and use extensions that require seperatw containers (like setting up collabora), but that can be done as well. It’s just more complicated.

    I do remember needing to know how to access the internal terminal a few times, but I don’t remember why. If I think of it I’ll come back and add instructions.

    Edit: It’s to be able to run occ commands:

    Sudo docker exec -u www-data nextcloud-app php occ “Command goes here”

    Sudo docker exec -u www-data nextcloud-app php occ files:scan --all


  • I’m not sure if this is helpful to you or not, because it’s not what you asked. I just don’t mount them on boot though.

    I have a script that requires a unique password that decrypts everything that I actually care about. If that hasn’t been run, then the server starts emailing me every 15 minutes until I do.

    The server is not setup to reboot unless I manually tell it to or there is a power outage, so logging in to run the script has never really been an issue. At most, I’ve had to SSH in from my phone maybe a handful of times.





  • As a current student attending an online class, it’s annoying to me as well. Sometimes it’s quite obvious when another student is using it, especially in the online discussions. The AI posts include too many detailed concepts for someone that clearly doesn’t know what they are talking about, and it comes off weird. There’s also usually a list including nuanced answers that either shouldn’t be there or need further explanation.

    However, my entire course consists of weekly discussion boards, 7 unrelated papers, and a 15-20 page final paper. These AI models might eventually force some of the crappier online teachers to actually teach instead of just proctor a time wasting exercise, and that would be a good thing. Education should not be exclusively about wasting adequate time reading and writing papers, and sometimes it seems like that is all that it is now.


  • I’m not sure what you are trying to say, we shouldn’t be concerned because this problem already happened?

    A lot niche older vehicle information, if it wasn’t hosted on Reddit, was often on forums funded by enthusiasts, which eventually ran out of money and no longer exist. This is exactly the problem that I’m concerned about. Particularly so if a certain community balloons in popularity and an admin nukes it to keep the server costs under control for the other members.


  • I agree, but I also have serious concerns about this being the replacement strategy. It could be because of my ignorance of how this all works though. Like many of you, I am new and here because of the reddexodus.

    These servers are going to cost money, and for many of them the money will run out. Is there a function to preserve the collective content of an entire server once it goes dark? I know that you can migrate your own account to another server, but what happens to everything Google has indexed at Lemmy.world if the worst happens? Is it all just dead links? What if many of the users do not migrate? Is it just gone?

    I am concerned that in the current state we are setting up to burn everything that loses a couple admins or becomes too old to economically host.