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Self-hosting my photos with Immich

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Re: Self-hosting my photos with Immich

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Post by globular-toast »

I've been running Immich on my Kubernetes cluster for a few months now. It was one of the harder things to install. I didn't use the "official" Helm chart because I didn't like it, instead just set it up myself. I use Cloud Native Postgres for DBs so I have backups already configured. I had to use a special image with vectorchord in it. It auto updates with flux and has been fine. The only time it wasn't fine was when I needed to manually upgrade vectorchord in the db.

The Android app is good but does quite often fail to open, just getting stuck on the splash screen indefinitely. Means I have to have another app for viewing photos on my phone.

One of the main reasons I wanted to install it is because my partner runs out of space on her iPhone and I don't want to pay Apple exorbitant amounts for piffling storage. Unfortunately it doesn't quite work for that; I can't find an option to delete local copies after upload.

Re: Self-hosting my photos with Immich

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Post by RadiozRadioz »

quag wrote: post #69
kalaksi wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm running NixOS on some of my hosts, but I still don't fully commit to configuring everything with nix, just the base system, and I prefer docker-compose for the actual services. I do it similarly with Debian hosts using cloud-init (nix is a lot better, though). The reason is that I want to keep the services in a portable/distro-agnostic format and decoupled from the base system, so I'm not tied too much to a singl…

How do you update the software in the containers when new versions come out or vulnerabilities are actively being exploited? My understanding is that when using containers updating is an ordeal and you avoid the need my never exposing the services to the internet.

If you're the one building the image, rebuild with newer versions of constituent software and re-create. If you're pulling the image from a public repository (or use a dynamic tag), bump the version number you're pulling and re-create. Several automations exist for both, if you're into automatic updates.

To me, that workflow is no more arduous than what one would do with apt/rpm - rebuild package & install, or just install.

How does one do it on nix? Bump version in a config and install? Seems similar

Re: Self-hosting my photos with Immich

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Post by Vinnl »

trizic wrote: post #56

There is something to be said about NixOS, it really is a matter of setting `services.immich.enable = true;` in a configuration file. I find this really powerful and simpler than docker and docker-compose. But don't get me wrong, I am all for containerization when it comes to other OS/distros. Yes, there is a learning curve for the Nix language and creating your own packages. But anyone who can install a distro can i…

Immich was my gateway into NixOS. It did a really good job of showing how well it can work. I'm only a couple of months in, so we'll see if it sticks, but I'm also running it on my laptop now.

Re: Self-hosting my photos with Immich

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Post by Vinnl »

euleriancon wrote: post #42
WD-42 wrote: post #4

Self hosting used to mean conceding on something. I can honestly say Immich is better in every way than Google Photos or whatever Apple calls it. The only thing is having to set it up yourself.

There are still some features that a miss from Google photos. There isn't any way (that I know of) to auto add pictures to an album based on the face. I used to have dedicated albums for family members, and it was nice to have the auto updated. Face recognition in general just isn't as good as Google Photos. It's still an amazing piece of software and I'd never go back, but it isn't perfect yet.

I'm waiting for that first point to. The good news is that they just started work on workflows, which should allow for that.

Re: Self-hosting my photos with Immich

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Post by andrew_eu »

WilcoKruijer wrote: post #86

How do people handle backups with Immich? Ideally I’d like all my images to be uploaded to object storage if I’m self-hosting.

I have the main volume for images in a zpool with two SSDs in a raid-1 configuration. I also have a daily cronjob that makes an encrypted off-site backup with Borg. I've also got healthchecks.io jobs setup so that if the zpool becomes unhealthy, the backups fail, or anything stops, then both me and my partner get alerted.

My partner isn't very technical, but having an Immich server we are both invested in has gotten her much more interested in self hosting and the skills to do it.

Re: Self-hosting my photos with Immich

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Post by ProfDreamer »

WilcoKruijer wrote: post #86

How do people handle backups with Immich? Ideally I’d like all my images to be uploaded to object storage if I’m self-hosting.

I'm using restic to backup the Immich photo directories as well as automatically generated Immich database dumps to an external drive and a Hetzner Storage Box.

Re: Self-hosting my photos with Immich

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Post by conradev »

trizic wrote: post #56

There is something to be said about NixOS, it really is a matter of setting `services.immich.enable = true;` in a configuration file. I find this really powerful and simpler than docker and docker-compose. But don't get me wrong, I am all for containerization when it comes to other OS/distros. Yes, there is a learning curve for the Nix language and creating your own packages. But anyone who can install a distro can i…

This is my favorite use of CLI AI coding tools: updating my nix config. I can just ask my computer to configure services for me!

Re: Self-hosting my photos with Immich

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Post by PhilipRoman »

WilcoKruijer wrote: post #86

How do people handle backups with Immich? Ideally I’d like all my images to be uploaded to object storage if I’m self-hosting.

Personally I do a daily sync from the underlying gocryptfs to Backblaze B2. It's also on btrfs so I can do snapshots, etc.
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