Hello, I’d like to try moving my Lemmy instance to another server.

I’ve read this: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/backup_and_restore.html and it seems relatively straightforward. So I was wondering if anyone has done it and if there’s any particular advice to keep in mind.

The images, which are the “heaviest” part, I have in S3 so I don’t have to move them, and therefore the backup/restore should be less complex and shorter, I think.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    3·
    27 days ago

    Most important when moving servers is the TTL of your domain’s DNS. It instructs other servers on how long they should cache your domain’s IP.

    I’d set it to 5 minutes now. And when you’re ready to actually move you can put it down to seconds so that everyone else can immediately get the IP of the new server.