marsara9@lemmy.world 9 months ago
A couple of options in my opinion, as I just did this myself:
You can use the CLI tool to “upload” them. You can even do this from the server itself. So upload times would be as fast as your network card can process or however fast your server is, whichever is slower. It does require that you create an API key for the user in question though.
Otherwise you can create an external library and link that to your account. Now Immich will still index this library but it won’t move or manage the actual files. I’m not sure though if it looks at those files for duplicates (i.e. if you try and upload the same photo from your phone to the server). This external library will also prevent deleting photos as well, FYI.
There might be other options that I’m not aware of, as I’ve only been using Immich for about a month now.
tehnomad@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I migrated using the CLI tool to upload before external libraries came out, and it worked well for me. I think I would have preferred to use external libraries for things like my wedding photos, so there aren’t duplicates on my server, but it’s not a big deal.