@InspectorCaracal oh, right

hhhhhh

i'm

i kinda wanna do that but then again i also like the security that if something fucks up i don't fuck up the running containers

@squirrel mastodon runs in memory even when it's not in docker, so even if you, say, did some terrible things to your production folder's code and so you delete it to pull the code from github from scratch but you forgot to back up your env file first and have to desperately search for the paperclip secrets from your last server migration so people don't lose all their uploads...

the actual running server is still totally fine while you do that!

@InspectorCaracal hhh

it's still scary :( but maybe

@squirrel Well, you could back up your docker installation and go back to it if the non-docker approach doesn't work out, right?

@InspectorCaracal iiif you know how to do that we can schedule a day to try figuring this whole thing out

@squirrel Iii... do not know how to back up a docker container, but I could probably find instructions.

@squirrel (yes this is a specific example that actually happened to me because I did it)