I am performing a migration that moves the images files from disk storage to object storage. During this migration the image back-end needs to be turned off, and so images will not be accessible.
It should still be possible to comment.
I am not sure how long this will take.
This is part of a few optimizations that I plan to do before I upgrade the instance to version 0.19.4.
On a lighter note, it would take far longer if you delayed it! Just imagine some years from now, the amount of data being transferred!
Exactly! It is something that I wanted to do over a year ago, but I was not sure how… Pretty much all my knowledge about servers comes from setting up and trying not to break a lemmy instance, so this was another lesson that I was a bit scared to learn 😂 It turns out that it was very simple as the pict-rs (Lemmy’s image backend) developer made a robust migration tool that automates this process. But since I don’t know that beforehand, I need to triple check backups and read the instructions several times in preparation so even if it is easy and the hard work has been done by others it still requires some focus.