@Sascha thank you Sascha. I used to be stuff like that on my other VPS - which had a Ghost-CLI installation. With YunoHost I don't dare go in the backend to touch anything, lest I disrupt something. I have too many important apps in that installation. I'm not incurring in any extra costs... it's just that a social networking app caches media, avatars and emojis of everyone I follow. I found an old backup from December 2024 when I was only following one account and it was 256 MB! Pruning the list of people I follow - it overlaps with my Mastodon account - may be the way to go 😅​

@zeitverschreib thank you for the heads-up and wow, that is A LOT 😲​

re: unfollowing, there are a lot of overlaps between my GoToSocial and my Mastodon accounts, so if I unfollow someone here, I would still see their content from my Mastodon. But I hear what you say!

@hikingdude

I have restored several applications without problems, e.g. Mastodon and Friendica.

Peertube, however, does not work in its current state. Backup yes, restore fails every time.

github.com/YunoHost-Apps/peert…

So it's always important to test restores or at least check the repositories regularly for signs of problems.

@elena

@hikingdude I was going through YunoHost's documentation yesterday and they recommend testing the restore function.

Now, my backups are so big and contain such precious data that I never dared do so... I may try from my second VPS that runs Umami, CryptPad and Wordpress.

As a backup strategy, I also have full daily backups done automatically by my VPS, with servers in multiple locations...