• Kogasa
    15·
    1 year ago

    Glad to see you’re back up and running. 👏

  • LodraEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

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

    • snoweOPMA
      19·
      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.

    • AtegonMA
      15·
      1 year ago

      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·
        1 year ago

        Wish I knew about this mastodon account earlier tbh

      • LodraEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

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

      • cmeerwEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

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

        • AtegonMA
          1·
          1 year ago

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