Unraid, failed hard disk, immich install reset..
Hi All
I had a disk failure in my unraid server a few days back, no problem I thought, the parity drive seemed to take care of everything. Anyway, went to login to my immich instance a day or two later and discovered it was showing me the new install screen. I've checked the disks and my immich data paths all seem to exists and i can view photos that way.
Im a little stumped as to why the immich instance has been affected by the disk failure and also how best to restore. I have database backups, so i can restore from those, but i dont want to just blindly import that in before i've checked everything else.
Any ideas ?
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.Additional information: the drive failure happened due to the power supply failing. I attempted to re-install the faulty disk as I thought the issue may have been caused by a dodgy cable when i installed the new power supply as the disk was relatively new. This didnt work, so i have removed tha disk and am still running with the drive emulated in unraid.
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Did you compose down/up after this?
Yeah, tbh I did a few bits of messing about before I realised immich wasnt working so I don't really have a proper timeline of everything š©
the database is in a docker volume called
pgdata for you
if this has been reset then I'm afraid there's nothing much you can do to save it, but there should be daily database dumps in UPLOAD_LOCATION/backups
You could use the last working one there to restore the DBYeah i have all of that, i just wanted to check beforehand incase there might be an easier option..
im just confused as to how the volume would have gone.. oh well
that's a question for docker š you could track it down in the volumes section and see if the data is inside?
yeah cant see it, oh well, restore it is!
well ive just restored the database and it all looks ok so far! š
Depending on the date of the backup, you might have some assets that were uploaded but are now untracked
yeah thats fine i can deal with that
what i cant deal with is my wife loosing her s&*t if any of the old photos arent accessible š¤£
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