I’m finally migrating from iCloud Photos to Immich next weekend. I finally have my NAS setup going
Can you please let us know how the transition went after a few weeks? I’m also considering the same but I’m also content with Apple Photos features like live photos etc.
I transitioned from Google photos to immich about a year ago:
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face recognition is absurdly much better
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searching for images is some black magic stuff
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it’s generally faster
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it’s map is really slow
Huh? The map isnt slow?
How many geotagged pictures do you have?
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Live Photos works in Immich.
One thing I really like about Apple photos is the memories that it suggests.
Immich also suggests photos. It works great under iOS.
Live photos are supported but only in the web version as of now
Immich is such a cool piece of software 🤩
Every day that I don’t switch, immich keeps getting better!
Do it
Yeah I’ve been waiting until it’s updates stop breaking backwards compatibility. It’s sounding better and better as time goes on.
Wait no more! Immich 2.0 is the first stable release. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v2.1.0
It might be time for me to make the switch, too Soo many things to selfhost and not enough time, but nextcloud had been annoying me for some time so it might get the priority
I also run both but don’t see how Immich could be a replacement for Nextcloud?
I use NextCloud for syncing photos from my phone and sharing photo galleries with my SO. NextCloud is quite bad for viewing photos, that’s why I have the Memories plugin and app, but it’s still not perfect. I also have the Recognize plugin, but in my setup it’s been broken for a few months and I don’t have the time to fix it.
So if I replace the photo sharing functionality I could replace the NextCloud itself for file sharing with something lighter. Might even go back to SMB.
I would definitely recommend Immich then. I use it together with my wife and we both upload our photos automatically and create albums together. There’re also companion projects, that make sharing albums outside your household easier and safer.
Oh shoot heck dang, time to fire this up!
I love immich and as soon as the feature for automatic clean up for already backed up images is available it’s going to be perfect.
automatic stacking would be nice too
oh fuck me i missed the 2.0;-)
Those who run immich, how have you been backing up your library?
My deployment isn’t anything fancy, it is currently a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 2TB external drive for the photo library. Been running for more than 6 months with minimal issues. Now that we are at a stable release I need to get some kinda backup going for the photos themselves.
The same way as all other services: all relevant data (compose.yml and all volume mounts) are in a btrfs subvolume. Every night a snapshot gets made and mirrored to a remote server by btrbk.
how much do you pay for the remote server? was thinking about doing something like this for nextcloud (and i might end up using immich in the future)
That server is also a homeserver I manage for family (in another city). The two homeservers then mutually back up each other.
I run Immich in a VM on Proxmox which gets backed up every 12 hours and all my photos are on the NAS which gets snapshotted every 12 hours and pushed to an external drive and a Hetzner box.
Translation: “I run immich in a virtual machine, which I can manage from a web browser. The photos themselves are stored on a different device which gets backed up to a remote location twice a day.”
So why run immich in a virtual machine instead of in, say, a docker? Wouldn’t that be way less overhead? (Or is immich the only thing you’re hosting?)
I have a docker VM with a gpu passed through/external access (is this called production?) and another docker VM on another machine with no passthrough/external access. So both VMs are running multiple stacks/services and i just assign based on use case. Storage and memory are cheap imo and it’s the most secure way to do it with the skill level i have so it’s how i run it. I’m sure there’s better ways but 🤷♂️
I run it baremetal, the photos / videos are all on a separate location (so are “Externsl Libraries” in Immich) and are backed up…
As far as the Immich application itself, I’m not currently backing up anything as I’ve been trialing it… but, I’ll aim to backup any configurations, but I’m thinking to maybe ignore any database - it can just relearn everything if I need to do a restore… depends how big that DB is…
Immich photos are one of the main thing I backup. I use duplicacy and I backup to backblaze B2 storage. It does incremental backups. Same thing with docker persistent data or other things I consider important.
Nothing fancy. I use Backrest for all my backups, and a few of my plans just include the Immich directory. My NAS is an entirely separate machine so my local backups go there, while everything is simultaneously pushed to a backblaze bucket
I clone the dirs nightly to a separate server + storage. Monthly to an offsite.
I have Immich on a proxmox container and use proxmox backup. It has already save me once.
I backup the underlying storage (which is a VM) that immich writes to.
In theory it should be a perfect copy that just crashed.Borg backup runs every hour on all my docker folders
ZFS sending to a remotelab.
Has anyone be able to get memories to work. I don’t get any notifications. I probably don’t understand how that works. Any pointers except the official documentation will be helpful.
Notifications? It doesn’t give you notifications. It just shows it at the top in the main interface (if there are any).
They show images from the same day in past years. So if your library has no images >= 1 year old I’m not sure if anything shows up.
