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frisby

What is the robust way to import 2 TB of photos?

I am running Immich in a docker container on TrueNAS. A family member gave me ~2TB of files, most of which is movies/pictures. These files have been copied to my NAS, but live in a chaotic folder structure with many duplicates.

I have tried uploading the files with both immich-cli and immich-go. Both crash. Immich-cli copies around 500 GB of files before it exhausts the memory in the docker container (16GB). immich-go loses connection to the API after ~300 TB.

The problem is mainly that there is no easy way to resume. I have not tried importing as an external library because I would prefer to run a storage template job after import.

Is the only reasonable solution to just look at immich-go's log and manually exclude the imported folders? Unfortunately it seems like just restarting it takes too long.

Happy to hear any tips!
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