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Immich: opinion revised (wiki.gardiol.org)
submitted 2 years ago by Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi fellow self-hoster.

Almost one year ago i did experiment with Immich and found, at the time, that it was not up to pair to what i was expecting from it. Basically my use case was slightly different from the Immich user experience.

After all this time i decided to give it another go and i am amazed! It has grown a lot, it now has all the features i need and where lacking at the time.

So, in just a few hours i set it up and configured my external libraries, backup, storage template and OIDC authentication with authelia. All works.

Great kudos to the devs which are doing an amazing work.

I have documented all the steps of the process with the link on top of this post, hope it can be useful for someone.

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[-] Lem453@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I used to use a docker container that makes db dumps of the database and drops it into the same persistent storage folder the main application uses. I use this for everything in docker that had a db.

Immich as recently integrated this into the app itself so its no longer needed.

All my docker persistent data is in a top level folder called dockerdata.

In that I have sub folders like immich which get mounted as volumes in the docker apps.

So now I have only 1 folder to backup for everything. I use zfs snapshots to backup locally (zfs auto shot) and borgmatic for remote backups (borgbase).

All my dockers all compose files that are in git.

I can restore he entire server by restoring 1 data folder and 1 compose file per stack.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 2 years ago

I don't understand how that's helpful. If something is corrupted or my house burns down, a local backup is going to go with it. That's why I asked for external backups.

[-] Lem453@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Borgbase is remote

[-] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 0 points 2 years ago

I have three tiers of backup. Never heard or the 3,2,1 rule?

3 backups 2 locations 1 offsite

I backup one time on an external disk connected to the server. A second time to another disk, connected on an OpenWRT router located in the patio. A third copy is uploaded to my VPS in the cloud.

not all three are symmetrical due to disk sizes. But critical data is always backed up on all three. Daily backups.

Restic do deduplication and encryption too, so actual data usage is really minimal and all is kept safe.

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