A fully local agent revived his collapsed social server after it ran out of disk mid-upgrade

Pointed a fully local agent at his collapsed Pleroma instance that had run out of storage mid-upgrade; the agent got it back up and running.

How it works

He points a fully local agent at his collapsed instance that ran out of storage mid-upgrade
The agent gets it back up and running

Why it’s worth knowing

Mid-upgrade disk-full is a classic death; this one got reversed.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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