Immich backup of user-generated photos without access to Immich server
Hey all, my RAID array recently went into degraded mode, and despite it being RAID5 and having a redundancy of 1, some of the files are still corrupted, and my Synology can no longer setup a NFS share, which my Raspi4 hosting Immich was hooking on to. I'm backuping all my files via FTP, and I now need to get all my Immich user-generated photos. I don't care about any other stuff that can later be regenerated, as long as I can reupload these files once I set a new Immich server, I'm all fine. Should I, in this case, be all safe by just copying the UPLOAD_LOCATION/upload dir and then drag n drop the files to the web interface? Thanks
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Successfully submitted, a tag has been added to inform contributors. :white_check_mark:Back up the whole UPLOAD_LOCATION dir, that should also include postgres dumps under
backups/
Then restore that into your new installation(if you're manually disabling reply pings, don't! I forget things easily <3. otherwise, if auto, then dw)
An issue I forgot to mention, the synology freezes pretty quickly after I start copying files over, so I want to minimize the amount of files I'm copying over, so I'm allowing myself to let go all other stuff in the upload dir besides user-gen content. I know this is an xy problem, but I literally do not want to bother trying to fix this infernal POS nas, I've given up with it. It's a decade plus old, takes an ungodly amount of time to do anything on the web UI, and tbh I don't think I'll be able to find much by googling "my DSM5.2 Synology is going slow"
also, ty for the reply, sorry for the long response time on my end
Then copy upload, library, and the most recent dump from backups/