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BORN TO FEDERATE
WORLD IS A FUCK
Do Fucking Backups
410,757,864,530 DEAD INSTANCES

seriously do your backups. things get broken and deleted very easily. and store them on a different server. at home or on s3 or backblaze or even google drive. many good software: duplicity, borg, ... daily is reasonable but even monthly is better than none. and check them once in a while. if you operate something just have backups. it's important.

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@CobaltVelvet @Gargron Spitballing... could encrypted backups of each instance be sent to, say, two other instances? Fediverse + Backups = FedUps!

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@qubyte @gargron yeah that can be done with borg, but it would need some good organization and documentation/support effort

@qubyte @Gargron @CobaltVelvet this would be great, but I feel like it won't happen because "privacy" 🙄

@mattbk @gargron @qubyte nah encrypted backups is pretty much already standard

it won't happen because
- it's a lot of work to do cleanly
- "any storage service on the internet" is already a cheaper option
- most instances don't have much storage available to begin with