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QHC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The top of Immich’s home page says “Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!” Is that hyperbole or a realistic warning?

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emuspawn@orbiting.observer ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
ABSOLUTELY.

Never use one source for critical data! One backup is no backups! No backups is playing with the entropic forces of the universe!

Have at least three copies of your data - primary, backup, and offsite backup.

Store the copies on at least two different media types.

Keep at least one of those copies offsite - what if your house or datacenter burned down?

If you don’t care about recovering your photos, by all means use an actively changing project as your sole means of data storage!
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- norgur@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, that goes for any data though. The question was more if Immich is really so unstable that it might just shred your images because it had a bad day. And to that I can say: no, it won’t. Yet, photos are very important to many people, so they put that warning there.
  
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  - vector_zero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    My practical answer: Nah, it’s probably not going to nuke your files.
    
    My software engineer answer: Never trust us to not make a mistake. It doesn’t take much to accidentally nuke a directory.
    
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