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We aim to introduce additional paid services (not paywalled features, as we will never implement paywalled features), which will help support the project and that enhance self-hosting, making it easier and more reliable. First among the many services already planned is an end-to-end encrypted, off-site backup and restore feature, built directly into Immich. This will enable a buddy backup feature as well.
I love this.
Free features, but offering actual useful services for self-hosters (encrypted cloud backup). Great business model for a project like this.
Having their own flagship instance, like Ente, would go a long way toward providing funding. I bet Ente is making a whole lot more money.
Awesome! But damn, I just installed v1.144.1 last night to play around with it. π
Bro 2.0 came so fast I didn't even have time to do 144, like why did they even bother releasing that when 2.0 was coming the very next day lol
If you're running it via docker compose it's trivial to upgrade, and there are no breaking changes. Pull, down, up, you're done.
The absolute irony... I've used Immich for nearly 2 years without fail; it's never skipped a beat. Today I update to the stable release and my Immich mobile app now has a sync error warning. This is the first issue I've ever had.
EDIT: Phew! Clear File Cache in mobile app has sorted the error. For a moment I thought the universe was against me.
I really like where immich is headed. Bought a license last week and finally deleted Google Photos.
Ooh this is great news! I guess it was both an entertaining experience and a chore at the same time bumping the server version every once in a while to keep the mobile app functioning.
Huge props to the team, it's one of the best pieces of software I've used in quite some time.
God damnit, now I need to set up k8s and install it.
I've been putting off moving out of Google photos for years. No, no, I shouldn't spend the time to host it. It has that scary banner.
Way to ruin my weekend! /s
Congrats Immich Team! /and if you're listening, thanks!
I was going to finally do k0/k3 or something kubernetes to set it up. I managed to get it going scalable with just docker swarm. So the kubernetes procrastination survived another deployment!
K8s prob overkill if it's just you and your family
K8s is pretty cheap for fault tolerance
Two VM's and two Pi
If my wife decides whe wants to watch the wedding video or the kids first TKD break and it's down, she'll clamor to move back to Google/Apple. I can also move my piholes over there and some of my arr stack.
Resillient hosting for zero cost is pretty hot.
If fault tolerance is what you're looking for I'd suggest a minipc over a pi, specced higher for the same cost and muuuch more reliable long term in my experience
Does Immich still require you to store all user photos into the same central directory?
I canβt move my family from Synologyβs offering until I can be sure each users photos will be backed up to their own accessible drive.
Is external libraries maybe what you're looking for?
I think they're organized into individual user directories (in one location), so could probably set up a directory backup per user to their own device if so desired.
Each user has a subdirectory, I dont see a reason you couldn't symlink them so they actually reside on different drives.
Hopefully they improved face tagging. I can't work out how to add a new person's name.
On the phone app you go to Library -> People -> "Add a name" at the top.
How does this compare with Ente?
it gets to be in sleep mode for 8-10 hours once or twice per day, which I'd assume is better for its life expectancy.
It's actually the opposite.
Spinning up and down puts parts under more stress than simply spinning constantly, assuming vibrations are minimal. Basically repeated changes in velocity are bad for mechanical parts, compared to just spinning at a constant rate.
Hard drives are so variable and failures so unpredictable, I bet you can't find that information. Most of the actual data about hard drive failures, like Backblaze's reports, are for drives that don't spin down.
That said, spin-down has always been used for saving power, not drive lifetime. I would generally assume spinning down never extends lifetime. Even in the case of an external hard drive you plug in once a month - it is very likely going to fail earlier than the drive spinning 24x7.
Also, I wouldn't shy from keeping the database on the same, fast storage as the OS, even if that's flash. Move to an external SSD when you can. HDDs have such long seek times.
It is worse for life expectancy.
A couple of questions for those who have used it. Does it back up the video snippet portion of the live photos? Does it have webdav support so I can backup to pcloud? Can it backup to multiple places, like my local harddisk and the pcloud storage?
Does it back up the video snippet portion of the live photos?
Yeah it works great for live photos I take with my Pixel. Should work for iOS ones too.
Don't think it has WebDAV support but you can use rsync to back up to pcloud. That's how I handle it.
Also, by default when you upload files to Immich it creates it's own directory structure but they have Storage Templates you can enable/customize to make it more human readable so the backups are more useful if looking at them without Immich.
Another option of you want more control over the directories themselves is External Libraries... but I don't believe uploading works with them, so you'd have to manually manage them outside of Immich (which kind of defeats the purpose IMO)
I'm excited for the roadmap of better sharing, group management and improved ownership. Unfortunately in its current state having a shared "family" library of pictures next to personal pictures is only possible with various workarounds (and all of those have significant downsides). Until then I'm just using it for myself, but it's been great so far.
Why are their official communities on Reddit and Discord? Why not a Mastodon or Lemmy community?
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