Comment on Immich: opinion revised

Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Borgbase is remote

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• Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I backup with restic the database backups done by immich, not the database itself, and the Library/library folder which contains the actual images and videos.

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• clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did you read the whole post? If so, did you go to his/her website?

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I just didn’t understand it.

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If anyone’s interested, here’s my Immich backup script. You setup rclone to use an S3 storage service like BackBlaze which is quite cheap. I also use a crypt which means RClone will encrypt and decrypt all files to/from the server. S3 configuration and crypt setup.

      Then set this up as a cron job. With the “BACKUP_DIR” option when you delete a photo it will get moved to the “deleted” folder. You can go into your S3 provider’s lifecycle settings and have these get deleted after a number of days. I do 10 days. Or you can skip that and they’ll be gone forever.

      #!/bin/bash
      SRC_PATH="/path/to/immich/library"
      DEST_REMOTE="b2crypt:immich-photos/backup"
      BACKUP_DIR="b2crypt:immich-photos/deleted"
      RCLONE_OPTIONS="--copy-links --update --delete-during --backup-dir=$BACKUP_DIR --suffix `TZ='America/New_York' date +%Y-%m-%d`.bak --verbose"
      rclone sync $SRC_PATH $DEST_REMOTE $RCLONE_OPTIONS
      
      

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, I don’t know what any of these words mean. I just want to click “export” and back all the data up to a flash drive. Is that too much to ask?

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