Regrettably, we had to make use of our backup strategy for the first time, and it resulted in losing 2 weeks of data.

Aside from the SOTD posts from the last two weeks, we also lost @whosgotthepudding@sub.wetshaving.social 's latest mail call. I’ve saved the picture links manually in case he wants to have access to those photos. here and here.

Luckily, this was just a result of me making a mistake, and not the result of some hardware failure, etc. I thought I was deleting old federated information from other instances to reduce the size of the database, but it turns out I deleted local information, too.

We do have the recent data from the past two weeks saved in a backup file, but in asking around it’s near impossible for someone of my non-technical background to merge that information with the old information. So, for now, it’s a loss.

Please accept my sincerest apology! Running this Lemmy instance is a big learning experience for me, and I learned a lot from this one! Thankfully the backup system that @djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social helped set up worked wonderfully. Had I caught my error a lot sooner we would have lost a lot less info.

-walden