In addition to the new backup scheme in place, I've also updated the theme I use here to 1.4 vice 1.3. I believe I managed to get all the relevant customizations nailed down, but will be testing.…
Have a good weekend, guys…
In my last post [https://thelastredoubt.com/automating-backups-part-1/] I covered how to get a proper dump of the database. I have, of course, verified the backup of the database. For ghost you can easily do so by spinning up another instance with ghost - this will require a DNS entry or update depending on if it's a replacement or a separate verification instance. Services such as Digital Ocean make it easy to spin up an instance for a couple hours and then destroy them. Update it to the same…
After having some issues manually messing around with the backend of my install, I started digging into the issue of "hey, it's nice I can manually dump my entire text contents into a .json file but that can't be scheduled in the GUI or dumped via command line" - especially since there still are some gotchas like "running ghost config without any parameters creates a new config file for the particular env" lurking about. Also, the one "ghost for beginners" guide I could find on backups assumed…
Superversive plays virtue-signalling Oscar bingo [http://www.superversivesf.com/2019/01/22/why-no-one-cares-about-the-oscars-2019/] so that I don't have to: > I don’t think anyone cares about documentaries … (RGB? Zion? I can’t even find an IMDB page on some of these). Foreign language films … Poland did something about the Cold War, which probably slipped in because no one in Hollywood was looking. For the log of God Almighty — FIFTEEN musical score nominations? Fifteen… talk about overkill.…