Comment on Immich: opinion revised

• Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think it is.

    Why is that?

    They are also pretty clear on the immich website on how to backup the database itself

    Yeah I’m pretty tired of hearing things are “pretty clear” or “not that complicated” and then being directed to an absolute word salad of technical terms no one without a computer science degree would understand.

    No, just an “export” wouldn’t be good enough since the files themselves do not include the metadata.

    They could…add them?

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Reading the comment I replied to, it appears to be much much more complicated. And I don’t understand how anyone can claim otherwise.

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    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You need to backup exactly two folders, which i have also pointed out in another commend and in the wiki.

      However you back those folder up, it’s up to you.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Key word is “appears”. Choose your source and destination, run rclone. That’s it. No harder than going to the page, clicking export, picking a folder, save. It’s really not hard at all, give it a try.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Choose your source and destination, run rclone. That’s it.

        This tells me absolutely nothing about how to do that. Source for what? Destination for what? What is rclone? Where do I get it? How do I run it? What does it do?

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There’s no way to do that for your entire library. Also I assume that would not retain the Immich-specific metadata like the ML object tags and the “people” tagged in the photos.

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You should have a backup solution for your server that should cover this, without that you should probably stick with managed photo backup services.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You should have a backup solution for your server that should cover this

        Thats…why I’m asking?

        managed photo backup services

        …is that not what Immich is?

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