Immich with Umbrel & NAS
Hello everyone!
I'm new to this channel and would like to start using Immich for a local backup of my pictures.
I’ve installed Umbrel OS (https://umbrel.com/) and the Immich application. However, I want to use a NAS in my network for storage. Unfortunately, Immich only reads hard drives connected directly via USB, and the USB hard drive I currently have is already in use for other purposes.
The NAS I want to use is a Western Digital 4TB (RAID1):
https://www.westerndigital.com/it-it/products/network-attached-storage/wd-my-cloud-expert-series-ex2-ultra?sku=WDBVBZ0000NCH-EESN
I can create a shared folder with account credentials on this NAS for Immich to use as storage for my pictures.
Is this possible?
Is there a way to achieve my goal?
Let me know!
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.You will probably have to reach out to umbrel support. We have no control over how a specific OS handles these situations. The underlying principle of storing the media on a NAS seperate from the main system is fine and many people do it.
You can wait for a response here if anyone has tried but not many people run this setup.
Fwiw we recommend just using a standard Linux distro. These "simple" oses often make things harder :p
Hello, I'm back. I removed Umbrella OS and installed Raspberry Pi OS (or just "Raspbian"). I installed Immich using this script:
https://immich.app/docs/install/script
Then, I mounted the NAS folder with this command:
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=immich,password='...'//<NAS_IP>/Immich /mnt/photos
Now, when I try to configure this mount to happen automatically at every restart, I get this error:
//<NAS_IP>/Immich /mnt/photos cifs username=immich,password='...',iocharset=utf8,vers=3.0 0 0
-bash: //<NAS_IP>/Immich: No such file or directory
After this, I assume I need to modify the .env file's upload_folder setting.
I hope someone can help me. Thank you
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