immich_server container not starting
Hi, I recently moved my docker stacks from baremetal to VMs and was originally using VirtIOFS for file storage. Immich was working with Virtiofs but after a few hours it would crash as virtiofs would hit a file cap and immich wouldn't be able to load anything else. I just moved everything from virtiofs to NFS and upon starting the immich docker compose file immich_server wouldn't start. If I leave it for a couple hours it does "start" but it doesn't post any logs when i run "docker compose logs". It also takes a couple hours to run "docker compose down". I'm not really sure where to go from here.
Edit: while I was writing this immich_server posted to the logs. It's been attacged in the log file.
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Is the postgres data on nfs too?
Yes
Databases on network mounts are never a good idea
For this reason, the Postgres database (DB_DATA_LOCATION) should ideally use local SSD storage, and never a network share of any kind.https://immich.app/docs/install/requirements
aw man. I wish there was a way to just pass through directories directly to my VMs. :/
Alright, I'll figure something out
The database will be really small, you can easily just have that stored on the VM
Alright, I'll move it over and give it a go then. Thank you for your help
Using it over a network mount most likely corrupted the database, so using the postgres folder won't work either
You need a fresh postgres folder, and then restore from a backup if you want to
Hi I'm back after a nap and I made a new postgres folder which made immich work again, and I went to restore the backup I have but I'm seeing a differenet error now.
I do want to mention this backup is from May 2024, so it's a bit older than I thought it was.
Hold on I found a backup from last month
Ok im getting a different error from this backup
How are you restoring the backup @User ?
I copied the postgres folder to the postgres directory
That's not how to restore a backup
Oh, I had no idea Immich did it's own postgres backups. Let me give that a shot
Looks like we're good now! I was able to log in on the web and through the app! 🙂 Thank you all so much
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