Immich 2.1 self-hosted photo and video management solution refines slideshow shuffling, adds album notifications, and polishes performance across platforms.
  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 days ago

    This thing changes versions faster than I can update my homelab… Lol.

      • JC1@lemmy.caEnglish
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        17 hours ago

        Why this complicated setup? Komodo handles auto update by itself. It also update the whole stack at once, so no shutdown of the BD while the app stays up. Just have 2 checkboxes to tick.

        The less stuff the better, it’s essential in case you have a failure. I only have to redeploy komodo, then all my stacks will be ready to get back online. I even removed watchtower.

      • cRazi_man@europe.pubEnglish
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        2 days ago

        This looks a lot more complicated that Watchtower. Is this something different or add other functionality?

        • saddlebag@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          22 hours ago

          I’m not familiar with Watchtower, I assume it will restart the container/stack if a new image is found. The biggest difference is that an edit to the git repo causing the container to be redeployed. This means the git repo becomes the source of truth and its possible to redeploy even when config changes get merged.

      • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 day ago

        I’ve been running this setup for a few months now and haven’t looked back. Works super well, and essentially acts as an approval process for letting a container update or not.

        The author also recently added a followup article to this one for using Forgejo instead, made migrating the setup super easy.

    • Ugurcan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Can you please let us know how the transition went after a few weeks? I’m also considering the same but I’m also content with Apple Photos features like live photos etc.

      • thedbp@feddit.dkEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        I transitioned from Google photos to immich about a year ago:

        1. face recognition is absurdly much better

        2. searching for images is some black magic stuff

        3. it’s generally faster

        4. it’s map is really slow

      • maxprime@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Live Photos works in Immich.

        One thing I really like about Apple photos is the memories that it suggests.

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Those who run immich, how have you been backing up your library?

    My deployment isn’t anything fancy, it is currently a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 2TB external drive for the photo library. Been running for more than 6 months with minimal issues. Now that we are at a stable release I need to get some kinda backup going for the photos themselves.

    • JC1@lemmy.caEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      Immich photos are one of the main thing I backup. I use duplicacy and I backup to backblaze B2 storage. It does incremental backups. Same thing with docker persistent data or other things I consider important.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I backup the underlying storage (which is a VM) that immich writes to.
      In theory it should be a perfect copy that just crashed.

    • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Nothing fancy. I use Backrest for all my backups, and a few of my plans just include the Immich directory. My NAS is an entirely separate machine so my local backups go there, while everything is simultaneously pushed to a backblaze bucket

    • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I run Immich in a VM on Proxmox which gets backed up every 12 hours and all my photos are on the NAS which gets snapshotted every 12 hours and pushed to an external drive and a Hetzner box.

      • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Translation: “I run immich in a virtual machine, which I can manage from a web browser. The photos themselves are stored on a different device which gets backed up to a remote location twice a day.”

        So why run immich in a virtual machine instead of in, say, a docker? Wouldn’t that be way less overhead? (Or is immich the only thing you’re hosting?)

        • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          11 hours ago

          I have a docker VM with a gpu passed through/external access (if this called production?) and another docker VM on another machine with no passthrough/external access. So both VMs are running multiple stacks/services and i just assign based on use case. Storage and memory are cheap imo and it’s the most secure way to do it with the skill level i have so it’s how i run it. I’m sure there’s better ways but 🤷‍♂️

    • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I run it baremetal, the photos / videos are all on a separate location (so are “Externsl Libraries” in Immich) and are backed up…

      As far as the Immich application itself, I’m not currently backing up anything as I’ve been trialing it… but, I’ll aim to backup any configurations, but I’m thinking to maybe ignore any database - it can just relearn everything if I need to do a restore… depends how big that DB is…

  • reddit_sux@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Has anyone be able to get memories to work. I don’t get any notifications. I probably don’t understand how that works. Any pointers except the official documentation will be helpful.

    • Esc@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Notifications? It doesn’t give you notifications. It just shows it at the top in the main interface (if there are any).

    • AtariDump@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I hated them too at first, but that’s because I didn’t understand them and they were new and scary.

      They’re still a little scary but, after having a dependency issue on another Linux box, I get the purpose of docker a little bit better now.

      Here’s a helpful primer: