Immich•2y ago

Updating caused the database to reset (1.73.0 -> 1.78.1)

Hi, apologies if this is a duplicate. I wasn't able to find a similar issue here. Like the title says, I attempted to update immich. docker compose pull was successful. docker compose up -d initially gave me an error about insufficient permissions to stop a container, which later changed to "bind: address is already in use" when attempting to start immich-proxy. I (probably unwisely) killed the proxy service using sudo kill <pid>, and docker compose up -d then worked fine. However, it appears immich either can't find the database or it disappeared. I was prompted to create a new admin account and none of my images, videos, settings or API keys are displayed (as if it were a fresh install). The images still do exist in my upload location. What's my best course of action here? Should I do a bulk upload from the images that still exist, or is there a way to get my old database back?

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bo0tzz•2y ago

You probably did something that caused the pgdata volume (which holds the database data) to be deleted.

is there a way to get my old database back?

Restore from your backups ;) Otherwise reuploading the library folder is the way to go. Make sure you don't accidentally upload the thumbnails etc

XilogOP•2y ago

agh, that sucks because I don't really see anything that'd cause pgdata to be deleted. Well, since I don't have a backup (🧠) I'll reupload. Thank you!

bo0tzz•2y ago

You can use docker volume ls to check if it somehow still exists (but that seems unlikely)

XilogOP•2y ago

usr@srv:~/immich-app$ sudo docker volume ls
DRIVER    VOLUME NAME
local     c59b6bbe5d0649e6344603da5b6a2c39cc22dc709a815369a870d3defa7f8a90
local     docker-compose_promdata-scaphandre
local     immich-app_model-cache
local     immich-app_pgdata
local     immich-app_tsdata

usr@srv:~/immich-app$ sudo docker volume ls
DRIVER    VOLUME NAME
local     c59b6bbe5d0649e6344603da5b6a2c39cc22dc709a815369a870d3defa7f8a90
local     docker-compose_promdata-scaphandre
local     immich-app_model-cache
local     immich-app_pgdata
local     immich-app_tsdata

It does seem to exist

bo0tzz•2y ago

Could be that's the newly created one of course 😅

XilogOP•2y ago

aaah yeah that's likely. Not a huge pain to reupload so I'll just do that then

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Updating caused the database to reset (1.73.0 -> 1.78.1)

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