Good morning Fedi friends!

Monday mornings mean: my weekly ritual of manually backing up my #YunoHost installation (my VPS does automatic daily backups of the whole VPS, but I say: better safe than sorry).

This latest backup is pretty big, because of my increased use of #NextCloud. So in reverse order, from biggest to smallest we have:

1) #GoToSocial : 5.8 GB
2) #PeerTube : 4.3 GB
3) #NextCloud: 3.7 GB
4) #Pixelfed : 1.6 GB
5) #LinkStack : 92 MB
6) #Fail2Ban : 362kb

Happy #selfhosting everyone! And in case you missed it, my self-hosting guide for newbies via YunoHost is available here: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/ (with 4 articles so far).

Have a great week everyone!

#MySoCalledSudoLife
A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost

Here is a 4-part guide about how to get started self-hosting essential internet services with the YunoHost system

Elena Rossini
Backing up things is pretty standard / low stakes.

But I just noticed that virtually ALL the apps on my #YunoHost system have available updates, which means... the hair-raising, palpitations-inducing, let's say a little prayer practice of creating a snapshot of my VPS (easy peasy) and clicking on "Upgrade" by order of importance.

#Fail2Ban and #LinkStack were pretty low stakes - done, no sweat. Plus I love how YunoHost creates backups before upgrading, so you can always revert back if something goes wrong.

Anyway, Pixelfed now and then my sacred triad of GoToSocial, NextCloud and PeerTube.

Wish me luck! 🥵​

EDIT: newbie me is more advanced than even I would think so... I'm checking out GitHub's YunoHost page for each app I want to upgrade. Apparently the Pixelfed package has issues so I'm not touching that 😅​

Reference: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/pixelfed_ynh/issues

Now checking out the other apps...

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YunoHost-Apps/pixelfed_ynh

The federated image shareing service Pixelfed for YunoHost - YunoHost-Apps/pixelfed_ynh

GitHub
@elena i think you're ready to graduate to hosting with docker containers in a vanilla Linux distribution (debian is perfectly adequate) with automated nightly backups. Then your weekly ritual can become: have the backups run ok those last days? Yes, okay, moving on. (Plus, sometimes, check the backups actually work, of course).
I enjoyed yunohost as well, but in the end, there's nothing like deploying docker containers (usually takes a minute to try a new one... If everything goes well)
@elena (skipping over the concept of automated upgrades, another benefit although a bad practice in theory, but convenient, I do this for the less sensitive applications for which I'm okay if one day they break and remain broken until I step in. Doesn't happen often anyway)