Posted on za 23 november 2024 in mastodon
Progress was made to get mastodon running in kubernetes next to the virtual machines in my mastodon.nl test environment. There was more fiddling involved than anticipated, but things are moving forward.
The container based mastodon services are now using the same NFS storage, postgres database, redis and elasticsearch as …
Posted on za 15 juni 2024 in mastodon
A couple of weeks ago I started pushing ZFS snapshots of the live database partition for mastodon.nl to my homelab. Testing that this is actually usable as a restore point for a postgres database was still on my todo list.
Today I found the time to setup an postgres …
Posted on zo 02 juni 2024 in mastodon
As I detailed a couple of months back, the mastodon media store is ZFS based and snapshots are pushed offsite multiple times a day. For the database servers, we used a daily SQL dump that was sent offsite. Good enough, but could be better.
Recently we had a small incident …
Posted on vr 26 januari 2024 in mastodon
As part of the Mastodon Servers Convenant that we apply for mastodon.nl, we need backups. Of-course we need backups.
So we have backups. Since June 2023 we've had offsite backups. This means the backup data is stored at another physical location and even with a different …
Posted on do 28 december 2023 in mastodon
Vandaag heb ik de eerste echte post geplaatst op de mastodon.nl hub. Mastodon.nl specifieke informatie zal hier worden verzameld, maar het start nu met een blogpost over de begroting voor 2024. Het idee is om hier gebruikerstips, -handleidingen en bijvoorbeeld informatie over donaties en bestedingen een plek te …