Comment on Immich: opinion revised

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah I just didn’t understand it.

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think it is. It doesn’t take much to understand which folders needs to be backed up. They are also pretty clear on the immich website on how to backup the database itself. No, just an “export” wouldn’t be good enough since the files themselves do not include the metadata.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        One rclone command isn’t much more complicated than one button.

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      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well yeah you could go on the site and select whatever photos and hit download I suppose.

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