Not mine, just cross-posting.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    oh I was thinking a full instance backup. As an instance admin it’d be nice to backup the whole thing in a standardized way so someone else could grab it and spin it up if I collapsed tomorrow, all the community and users

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      1 year ago

      If the instance is setup as a docker container, then it should be easy. The following should be transferred

      • docker-compose file
      • zipped up volume directory

      At the destination, the docker volume dirs should be unzipped and the new paths should be updated in the docker-compose file. I’m sure someone would have made a script for this by now.

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        1 year ago

        Which is what I’m doing, and I store the backups securely, but then there’s no standardized way of “Hey the admin is gone, can we take over” ability. I could tell my community here are the backups, but then there’s just no standardized way of transferring admin. Idk, I think most things online should have a “Will and testament” type thing. “This passes to XXX”