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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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[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm not looking to become a sysadmin, thanks. I just want somewhere to safely store and organize my private photos.

I don't know how to access the filesystem and copying the library folders would not back up the metadata.

A great backup solution would be what I mentioned elsewhere. Just put a button to export it to a flash drive or an encrypted file server.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not looking to become a sysadmin

And that's fine and understandable. But I don't think that Immich is for you. It's not consumer-grade software. It's a piece of Linux server software that requires occasional maintenance and administration. We haven't seen a breaking update in a while but Immich does occasionally release updates where things will break if you don't dig in to the config files and reconfigure it.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 2 years ago

If they implemented a proper backup system I wouldn't have to worry about it breaking. That's why I want it.

There's nothing else I need to access the backend for.

[-] shiftymccool@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Give me the angry downvote all you want but, you are administering a system, you are literally a sysadmin

[-] ozeki@mastodon.gamedev.place 0 points 2 years ago

@Ulrich @bdonvr It will indeed be hard to use Immich without some technical knowledge at the moment. The documentation explicitly warns that the software is changing fast and might break a few things.

I'm sure that some day they will have a paid hosted tier that will de-risk the technical aspects such as backups and resilience but thats not here yet.

Perhaps you could take a look at Ente Photos for a non-Google, privacy friendly (and encrypted) photo hosting solution.
https://ente.io/

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

I obviously have "some technical knowledge" as I was able to launch a server and install Immich. I just don't understand why everyone seems entirely opposed to making things easier.

[-] shiftymccool@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

I'm not looking to become a sysadmin

"I want to be an F1 racer but I don't wanna learn to drive"

That's what I heard you say

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