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Question about servers and backups (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by iod@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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If a server were to be shutdown(lack of financing or any other reason) would all the content posted there be lost too?

Is there anything the admins do or can do to prevent this? Any Mastodon instance featured on the main webpage for example offers a guarantee to at least warn users months before the shutdown.

Could the content be perhaps moved to another server like mastodon people can move over their followers?

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[–] CaptainBlagbird@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm wondering the same, especially in regard of the users that registered on that instance. If there is no backup/move would the users have to start at 0 on a new instance?

[–] iod@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yes. Users definitely have to start over. Mastodon offers a move but lemmy doesn't have it yet, maybe in the future

[–] CaptainBlagbird@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, then I better keep a personal backup of all my community subscriptions.

[–] iod@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

don't forget about the comments you save, they're as valuable.

[–] CaptainBlagbird@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, of course, backing up the saved posts and comments too.