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Formatted Instance and Now Doesn't Work (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Quindius@lemmy.world to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
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I accidentally formatted the data directory containing all of the data for my Lemmy instance, and now when I try to remake the instance it works fine till I connect the domain to the server, where it proceeds to stop working. Looking at the logs I think it might be because all of the instances are trying to send their posts to a user which doesn't exist anymore, is there a way to fix this?

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[–] code@lemmy.mayes.io 2 points 1 year ago

Create that user? I wiped mine early on once and just made sure to recreate the users i had. Only had 2.

Also look at the lemmy admin guide for a simple command to backup your db.