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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      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”

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          1 year ago

          Google has a way to set a “dead-timer”. If an account has not been logged into for x days, it will pass on to someone you have decided (before dying). That can be done here also.

          Lemmy is still young, so those scenarios haven’t come up yet. We just need to be a bit patient. 😄