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Don't forget to backup daily! (self.metadiscussions)
submitted 2 years ago by Yuki2501 to c/metadiscussions
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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.

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[–] neshura 3 points 2 years 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