Advice on my Immich setup with OneDrive/iCloud assist
Hi all! I'm super excited to use immich more. I've been testing it out with a bunch of photos & videos of mine and am so impressed by how polished it is.
I'm be migrating from:
* iCloud (but I'll keep the past year's worth of content there)
* OneDrive (though I'll keep OneDrive for backup since I get 2TBs there)
* and I guess there's currently a Google Takeout in OneDrive
I've only got about...200GB of data. Baby numbers I'm sure lol
The problem: OneDrive has a set of media & iCloud has a different set of media... They do overlap in some of the media but I really don't know what is in iCloud but not in OneDrive and vice versa.
Ok, enough about them, back to Immich... I've got a decent enough machine with 2 TBs of storage. This is what I'm running Immich on.
Lastly, while I'm excited to take more of a dependency on Immich, I want to do so in baby steps as I get more confortable using it.
Now you have all the context, my plan is:
* Immich runs on this machine with 2TBs of storage. It pulls in an external library that is the OneDrive storage
* The OneDrive app is responsible for syncing photos on my iPhone.
* iCloud is kinda kept separate from everything and can still sync my media but it exists as an ephemeral storage
The alternative setup idea I had was:
* Immich does the syncing
* OneDrive basically backs up Immich's store
* iCloud is separate here as well
The problem with that idea is that I already have so much media in OneDrive... but I suppose I can pull in some subfolder of OneDrive as an external library and then have it back up Immich's media by putting it in another folder. Maybe that's fine. Now that I'm talking about it outloud, I wonder if this is ideal as it would allow me to kinda clean up the state of my stuff... I could back process the Google Takeout, etc, and Immich will organize nicely.
I don't know, I'm intimidated by the accidental data loss 😅 maybe I need to not be so scared and just try things... (with ample backup)
Any advice?
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Successfully submitted, a tag has been added to inform contributors. :white_check_mark:What accidental data loss are you talking about?
Also you could use a dedupe tool locally before uploading/starting immich
I've personally used https://github.com/arsenetar/dupeguru and it's pretty nice
https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka is another well known deduper
The latter's page also includes other tools I haven't used like Krokiet
Immich will also refuse any identical duplicates, and has a deduplication utility built in for similar files
As for data loss, make sure you have rock solid backups
Just if I mess something up… but yeah I should just have rock solid back ups
This is a good idea! I like this plan.
* backup everything
* throw everything through a deduper
* throw it in to Immich