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   :apa: スプリットショックウイルス † (splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 07:37:49 JST :apa: スプリットショックウイルス †

   • かき@GNUsocialJP

   EVERYONE I FOUND THE PROBLEM.

   I ran rclone sync

   I'm fucking retarded.

   rclone sync, syncs source to destination and deletes everything not at source.

   so local disk has switched off at Aug 31st, I ran rclone copy, some time I ran rclone sync after assuming it would detect files that already exist, it did, and then deleted files that didn't exist on source.

   literally as shrimple as that. So... media is gone between Sep 1 and Sep 5, sorry fellas :cirno_shrug:

   What a stupid command

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     :apa: スプリットショックウイルス † (splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 07:37:48 JST :apa: スプリットショックウイルス †

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     • idk anymore, man

     @benis_redux You don't need to rub it in nigga :bball1:

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     idk anymore, man (benis_redux@cawfee.club)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 07:37:49 JST idk anymore, man

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     @splitshockvirus NO BRO THE FILES ARE STILL THERE I SWEAR
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     :apa: スプリットショックウイルス † (splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 07:38:54 JST :apa: スプリットショックウイルス †

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     • Stephen Brooks 🦆

     @sjb rsync 👍🏼
     rclone sync 💀

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     Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 07:38:55 JST Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     @splitshockvirus This is why one of my sync scripts has an "if there are less than 100 files in source, abort with a warning" in it.

     [edit] and the same for "destination file is newer than the source".

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     :apa: スプリットショックウイルス † (splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 08:05:44 JST :apa: スプリットショックウイルス †

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     • Stephen Brooks 🦆

     @sjb nah it's more, hosting prices have gotten insane recently due to flash mem prices. Mastodon requires something like 8-16GBs to compile the ruby env. Also you are required to cache remote media which eats storage space.

     You can get around the later by setting up an S3 bucket and or setting retention to 1 day but mastodon is really meant for 100s of clients, same with misskey.

     I don't like pleroma but it's better for single user instances like your use case.

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     :apa: スプリットショックウイルス † (splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 08:05:45 JST :apa: スプリットショックウイルス †

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     • Stephen Brooks 🦆

     @sjb If you have the resources to host your own I would recommend that because then you don't have to deal with our defeds. If you want to save some 🍞 you can setup a VPN+reverse proxy on your current host and run an instance with a spare computer.

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     Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 08:05:45 JST Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     @splitshockvirus I might spin up an entirely different VPS for independence purposes. My main website is only $12/mo or something, I believe a VPS for a single Mastodon would be even less(?)

     Ideal situation is if I could subdomain mstdn.stephenbrooks.org to point at that new server too.

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     Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 08:05:46 JST Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     @splitshockvirus I was asking AI about it but I've also pretty recently had AI give me shell code that did the exact opposite of what I wanted (overwrite newer config with old).

     By the way mstdn.io is planning to shut down. I already have a mstdn.starnix account. Although was also wondering about trying to host my own one. Maybe on a new VPS, not sure it's sensible to also put it on my existing website host.

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     :apa: スプリットショックウイルス † (splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 08:05:47 JST :apa: スプリットショックウイルス †

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     • Stephen Brooks 🦆

     @sjb I'm guessing the logic being that rclone sync, in English sounds more correct to what it's actually doing. But coming from rsync, sync in my mind is checksum files that already exist compare and transfer those that don't exist or are differnet based on checksum.

     clone copy is basically rsync, but in shell cp is copy. copying without checksuming is possible but it's slower because it overwrites files that might already exist.

     I would have preferred rclone mirror

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     :apa: スプリットショックウイルス † (splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 08:05:48 JST :apa: スプリットショックウイルス †

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     • Stephen Brooks 🦆

     @sjb Amazing how in my 5+ years using rsync I have never accidentally deleted files. Because you have to specify a flag. And rclone just deletes files by default.

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     Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 08:05:48 JST Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     @splitshockvirus This might be a rare case of the best design being NO default (at least for rclone). You have to specify what you mean because there are about 6 ways of doing backup/sync.

     I also got caught out by one that used timestamps and FAT32 apparently has a fit when changing out of daylight saving time, started overwriting newer files.

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     Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 08:05:49 JST Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     @splitshockvirus A while back I had some Windows HDD go unmounted and then my automatic backup script deleted all the backups because it saw 0 files on the source.

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     :apa: スプリットショックウイルス † (splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 08:05:50 JST :apa: スプリットショックウイルス †

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     • Stephen Brooks 🦆

     @sjb that's basically the long and short of it.

     I can properly guess my exact mentality at the time too. The destination bucket isn't online so it doesn't matter if it deletes diff. I forgor it was online.

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     Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 08:05:51 JST Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     @splitshockvirus I should stop going down this rabbit hole.
     https://blog.everpuredata.com/purely-educational/rclone-vs-rsync/

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     Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 08:05:51 JST Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     @splitshockvirus Aha now I see the issue.