Notes on backing up my Mastodon server to S3
So, now that the dust has settled, and I have some time to set up a more efficient method for backing up my Mastodon server, I figured I'd try simply dumping my PostgresSQL database and saving it to S3.
Mastodon
I'm running my own single-user Mastodon server on AWS. Follow my journey here!
How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS
Yesterday I took a poll to find out what would be most interesting to write about. I will abide by this poll.
Notes on serving images and a brief Mastodon server outage
Mastodon appears to be a really good copy machine, and makes cache copies of all kinds of image files, videos, and avatars based on the accounts you follow.
Notes on configuring Amazon CloudWatch to monitor my Mastodon server
In the end, I wound up with this nice looking custom dashboard in CloudWatch and a few alarms set up to monitor the metrics I decided were critical.
Notes on running a Mastodon server on AWS
I’ve been pretty Mastodon-curious for a couple weeks now, and after spending some time tinkering with an account I set up back in 2018 on mastodon.social, I decided to explore setting up my own instance. These are my notes.