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A bunch of atoms that are curious about the world, but furious about the society. We should help all humans to have a decent life without any strings attached, so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe. And create a smarter and saner society.

Since 2005 I make documentaries, write books, and enable many trade-free platforms for everyone.

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Tio

3 days ago •

Tio
3 days ago •

Our updated forum, finally! - forum.tromjaro.com/t/our-updat…

This is a very short post to tell you that we have finally updated our Discourse forum to the latest. For the past year (or more) the Yunohost package for Discourse (what we use) was quite broken and we ended up having an entire separate server just or the forum since we could not update the server itself because of it. Therefore we had an old forum on an old server.

Now we managed to do some gymnastics and move it to our main server and update it. Finally! From now on I hope there will be no more such issues.

I was willing to even give up on all of our forum posts, accounts and comments just to be able to update it and not pay for a separate server for it.

But now all is good. All is fixed apparently.

Many thanks to the folks from Yunohost for the work that they do! And to those who made the Discourse software!

#yunohost #discourse #forum #linux

#Yunohost #Linux #discourse #forum

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Tio

in reply to Morpilim Perdurabo • 3 days ago •

Much appreciated!

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Morpilim Perdurabo

in reply to Tio • 3 days ago • •

🙏 🙏 🙏 i'm on a tight budget right now but, i look forward to a supporting role soon

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Tio

1 month ago •

Tio
1 month ago •

I was finally able to upgrade Yunohost to the latest Debian 12. Remember my struggle social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc4… ?

So we managed to fix the Borg package for YNH. Thus I was able to have proper backups. I made backups for all of the apps and YNH.
Bought a dedicated server from Hetzner that was still providing Debian 11 images.
Installed YNH there
Restored all backups there except for the TROMjaro Forum (Discord) that's broken.
Managed to do the YNH upgrade there
Bought a Webdock Server (where our websites were originally hosted)
Installed the new YNH there
Restored the backups
Made a mistake and bought an expensive server, could not downgrade, bought yet another one from Webdock and migrated the websites there (easier this time, snapshot based)

It was a LOT of work. Not click here and do that. Debug, fix, wait...I worked almost 24h since yesterday. But now all seems to be fine. New server. Everything upda

I was finally able to upgrade Yunohost to the latest Debian 12. Remember my struggle social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc4… ?

So we managed to fix the Borg package for YNH. Thus I was able to have proper backups. I made backups for all of the apps and YNH.
Bought a dedicated server from Hetzner that was still providing Debian 11 images.
Installed YNH there
Restored all backups there except for the TROMjaro Forum (Discord) that's broken.
Managed to do the YNH upgrade there
Bought a Webdock Server (where our websites were originally hosted)
Installed the new YNH there
Restored the backups
Made a mistake and bought an expensive server, could not downgrade, bought yet another one from Webdock and migrated the websites there (easier this time, snapshot based)

It was a LOT of work. Not click here and do that. Debug, fix, wait...I worked almost 24h since yesterday. But now all seems to be fine. New server. Everything updated.

I have left the TROMjaro Forum on the old server and downgraded its hardware to its lowest possible to keep it cheap. In total we pay a bit less than before despite all of these since I am able to get the money back from all of these servers because I used them for less than 24h. Thus the rush. We are super low on money so we have to be careful about these things.

This was the hardest thing I had to do these past months. Took over a month to fix it overall but now I can relax a bit.

There is a lot of work behind these websites, you know.... But I am happy with the end result.

I love our TROMsite.com, TROMjaro.com, TROMhome.com, VideoNeat.com, Trade-Free.org, TROMnews.com :)

#yunohost #sysadmin #servers #foss

Tio

2025-01-09 00:41:28

Very much stuck with updating our TROMsite server. That is all of the websites we have except the TROM.tf ones.
Here's the conundrum:
We use @YunoHost and a VPS.
YNH pushed a big update recently from Debian 11 to 12.
Our VPS is containerized and fails to do this big update through YNH. Thus a fatal failure and unable to reach the server if we update. Nuked. Took many failed attempts, and many days to figure the reason.
The hosting company cannot help in any way.
Solution (not really):
Buy a new VPS with Debian 11 (not too easy to find)
Install an older YNH there.
Restore our YNH setup from the older one using Borg and do the update to Debian 12 from that server.
BUMMER!
- The Borg YNH app is broken and thus all of our backups are broken. An issue with the folder structure inside the backup archives. Seems easy to fix and they are fixing it, but we need to wait for the update.
AFTER BORG IS FIXED:
- Say we buy a new server with Debian 11. Restore YNH there and do the update there.
TROMjaro FORUM WILL BE DEAD:
- There is a huge issue it seems with Discourse (the TROMjaro forum software we use). It did not receive any updates in months and months. And it fails to restore any backup on any system. Thus if we move to a new server in order to update to YNH Debian 12, we cannot restore the forum.
Very very difficult, if not impossible situation.
#yunohost #server #sysadmin #debian

#Yunohost #foss #sysadmin #Servers

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Tio

1 month ago •

Tio
1 month ago •

Updated Friendica to the latest. All seems to work fine. Super fast. Pushed the commit to the YNH master package - github.com/YunoHost-Apps/frien…

#yunohost #friendica

GitHub - YunoHost-Apps/friendica_ynh: Friendica package for YunoHost

Friendica package for YunoHost. Contribute to YunoHost-Apps/friendica_ynh development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

#Yunohost #Friendica

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Tio

1 month ago •

Tio
1 month ago •

Very much stuck with updating our TROMsite server. That is all of the websites we have except the TROM.tf ones.

Here's the conundrum:

We use @YunoHost and a VPS.
YNH pushed a big update recently from Debian 11 to 12.
Our VPS is containerized and fails to do this big update through YNH. Thus a fatal failure and unable to reach the server if we update. Nuked. Took many failed attempts, and many days to figure the reason.
The hosting company cannot help in any way.

Solution (not really):

Buy a new VPS with Debian 11 (not too easy to find)
Install an older YNH there.
Restore our YNH setup from the older one using Borg and do the update to Debian 12 from that server.

BUMMER!
- The Borg YNH app is broken and thus all of our backups are broken. An issue with the folder structure inside the backup archives. Seems easy to fix and they are fixing it, but we need to wait fo

#Server #Yunohost #debian #sysadmin @YunoHost

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Rokosun

in reply to Tio • 1 month ago • •

If someone could fix the Discourse app on YNH that would be nice 😅

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David W. Jones

in reply to Tio • 1 month ago • •

Good luck.

For what it's worth, I had more problems updating Ubuntu on my wife's old laptop from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS than I did migrating my laptop from Debian 11 to Debian 12... But I don't have server stuff running on either of those, so I don't have the complexity you have!

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