Inmich startup settings lost each time container is restarted
Hi, I am bit of a noob here must be missing something when setting up inmich but I have it running as part of docker desktop in windows
Each time the container is down and brought up again the progress is lost
Iβm not sure if this is related to WSL2 or not but I can view my files being present in the home directory of WSL2
I really need help why this is always resetting my inmich setup
I have not done any custom changes to compose file or config just followed install instructions from website
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.Can you post the docker-compose and .env file?
Yeah sure definitely do that once online
I used this method https://immich.app/docs/install/script
Ran this script in WSL Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Then once it setup I used Docker Desktop to either shutdown or start it back up
You are not using the postgres volume as recommended @ππ¨π€ππ«
As I mentioned kind of a noob here π₯²
Just need to make this change?
Yes, to be clear this is the same as starting over yet again
But it should help in persisting the data
Okay thanks Iβll try out later
You can close this topic
Hi I re-opened this thread so that you would have context on what i was working with before
I did this change in docker-compose file and the .env file, it seems the data is persisting now
But the old data which I had uploaded to immich server still exists in the home directory of WSL, How can i get those restored
I cannot view these in the browser page
Its almost 4GB of data which I hope to restoreπ
It's not trivial without some cli knowledge to restore, especially true for windows
Far easier would be to move the old files away and upload them again if that is an option
Let me go through this to see If i can restore my files
anyway to access the database from UI?
maybe I can just copy all the files from inside these folder and upload them
No, it's all cli
Will work!
Yes it worked now i hope it does not die when i shutdown my pcπ₯²
anyways thanks you can finally close this topicπ
If it stops working after a reboot all you might need to do is restart docker desktop
Hello everybody. Loving this project so far but I screwed my installation. I used to host it on an Ubuntu server. All my docker and uploads and config etc are on an external disk. I then mounted my drive on a proxmox lxc but when I launched the docker compose file it didn't recreated my library etc from my uploads folder (which is mapped on the docker compose file) can you help me restore my immich instance?
Hello, you should make a new ticket but please note we do not support/recommend lxc
It can work but if you need our help we recommend a VM
Hi i know this is a different topic but just a quick question how to disable machine learning
Do you not want ML @ππ¨π€ππ« ?
In any case, if you just comment out the container in the compose then that will definitely stop all ML jobs
But if you just want to pause the processing, you need to pause the smart search and face detection/grouping jobs
Okay thanks a lot will try that
Iβm just kind of backing up my photos from phone since im running out of spaceπ
You can uh, just connect a USB cable and copy them over if that's all you want π