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Backing up Immich (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The backup doc from Immich states that one should use Postgres' dump functionality to backup the database, as well as copy the upload location.

Is there any counter indication to doing this instead:

Create a dir immich with subdirs db and library
Mount the db dir as a volume for the database
Mount the library dir as a volume for the upload location
Backup the whole immich dir without dumping the Postgres db. (Stop Immich while before doing this)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's the way I do all of my service backups. One separate DB container per docker stack so nothing else is in there, all the data in one folder, and off we go at 1AM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, also I don't run the latest version of the app in order to avoid breakage. I pin some tag so the app version so there shouldn't be a significant version mismatch during restore. I think @Esquero's suggestion to also dump the db just in case makes sense too. I'm gonna be writing a backup script / systemd unit anyways, might as well as a couple of lines for that.