Mastodon: tootctl command to backup local media only
Pitch
A tootctl command that makes a copy of all local media only, in a way that can be reimported by Mastodon if restoring the instance.
Motivation
Remote media can be refetched while local media cannot - and backing up hundreds of gigabytes of media is expensive.
busshimoe
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It would be useful.
drsebro
on 24 Jan 2020
Possibly out of scope for this request, but a backup/restore command in general would be useful. One that could dump the database as well as the local media, compress and an option to upload to a remote S3 bucket.
Possibly even a way to schedule them in Sidekiq and view the backups via the admin interface.
JamesABDL
on 27 Jan 2020
I totally agree with this. Backing up the entire /public/system dir of my server (2500 local users/ 3540 federated servers) takes days. For days I'm thinking could be a significant improvement be able to back up only all local users' media/avatar/header files and forget about all other remote servers media files.
In exemple,
remote servers dir: /public/system/remote
local users dir: /public/system/local
@Gargron what do you think? is this technically possible?
ghost
on 8 Feb 2020
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I totally agree with this. Backing up the entire /public/system dir of my server (2500 local users/ 3540 federated servers) takes days. For days I'm thinking could be a significant improvement be able to back up only all local users' media/avatar/header files and forget about all other remote servers media files.
In exemple,
remote servers dir: /public/system/remote
local users dir: /public/system/local
@Gargron what do you think? is this technically possible?