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How can I reduce the amount of storage used by my Lemmy instance? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 10 months ago by TrinityTek to c/selfhosted

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I've had a Lemmy instance running on a VPS with 100 GB of storage for a few months and it has filled up. I've been searching for ways to reduce the amount of storage used but so far I am coming up empty. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

what is stored in received_activity ? anything important? I mean obviously it's something the instance has received from other instances but is this then stored somewhere else (like comments then stored elsewhere for eg)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

As far as I've been told it's basically just a log of all received activities. Nothing references it.

Nothing seems to have gone wrong in the past week on thelemmy.club since I removed it. I do have backups though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nice, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

in v0.19.0 Lemmy will automatically delete entries over 7 days old

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4113

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/cb01427dcff14b3d88e30220695fc97978786a9a

currently it waits 3 months before deleting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Time to update then!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

it's in alpha currently, but you could still run it

I think you might have to use the :dev tag to get this update, a bit risky to stay on that tag though, maybe wait for the next docker image of an alpha release

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ta, good to know

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well now you can use :0.19.0-rc.5 :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

epic :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

oh btw 3rd party apps aren't working with 0.19.0 yet, because of changes to the authentication API

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Good to know. I'll check it out.