This evening I rebooted the host (though it’s uptime was under 2 weeks)
rebaking succeeded
# rake posts:rebake
Rebaking post markdown for 'default'
2950 / 2950 (100.0%)
2950 posts done!
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but, as you suggested, this didn’t bring back the images. Ill start a new thread for that.
As for this issue (not being able to rebake ~2600 posts) Ill note that this thread seems useful:
EDIT: As for the initial issueI was trying to solve, this thread indicates that recover_from_tombstone is needed in addition to the rebuild, but that hasn’t worked yet.