Migrating from Synology Photos - best practices
Hi all,
I've just installed immich with a stack on portainer on my synology Nas, ran a few tests and it seems to work great.
My main question is around Mobile backup and best practices around that if I want to ditch Synology Photos completely for both myself and my other users (family, mix of iOS and Android) and have immich handle the upload/backup while preserving my current library, I did some research online and I can either add my existing library as an external library or import everything through immich-cli.
The app doesn't have an option to upload only new photos (like Synology photos does, on Android at least), not sure if that's on the roadmap?
I can select the camera folder to be backed up but I'm guessing that would duplicate all my mobile backed up photos current in the library, even if I import it with the immich cli first? Or would immich recognize they are the same files and not back them up?
What's the best way to move forward if I want immich to backup all my future photos from my phone without worrying about duplicates with my existing backup?
I've just installed immich with a stack on portainer on my synology Nas, ran a few tests and it seems to work great.
My main question is around Mobile backup and best practices around that if I want to ditch Synology Photos completely for both myself and my other users (family, mix of iOS and Android) and have immich handle the upload/backup while preserving my current library, I did some research online and I can either add my existing library as an external library or import everything through immich-cli.
The app doesn't have an option to upload only new photos (like Synology photos does, on Android at least), not sure if that's on the roadmap?
I can select the camera folder to be backed up but I'm guessing that would duplicate all my mobile backed up photos current in the library, even if I import it with the immich cli first? Or would immich recognize they are the same files and not back them up?
What's the best way to move forward if I want immich to backup all my future photos from my phone without worrying about duplicates with my existing backup?
