I shall be moving the pict-rs data from local filesystem to local S3 this evening.
The site shall be offline for an extended period during this migration. There is ~450G in just over 3 million files currently hosted on the pict-rs instance.
Lemmy and all its containers are on an NVMe backed zfs pool. With pict-rs fast approaching 500G I've been exploring alternatives. So I introduced an S3 service using spinning rust.
I expect the migration to take several hours so will start this just before I head off for bed between 2300-0000 GMT.
Update 2025-01-21 03:09 GMT
Downtime 3h 17m -- Migration completed. Images seem to be working, both new and old. Site is catching up on missed posts.