Trying to store thumbs on another device than main images, but can't get it to work
Hi,
I'm trying to follow this (https://immich.app/docs/guides/custom-locations/) documentation page, to move thumbs and the other "fast needed" storage to a locally mounted block volume. I have my main images on a rclone mounted SFTP drive at
/mnt/hetzner_storage_box/immich-library, and trying to move the thumbs to a locally mounted block volume /mnt/block_volume/immich.
However immich keeps complaining that it can't find the thumbs folders. I'll put some useful info below:
docker-compose.yml and .env: https://bpa.st/IC2Q
Error log:
A command that shows there is definitely a file there:
Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Also I can't seem to bash into the container to do an ls from there.13 Replies
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Successfully submitted, a tag has been added to inform contributors. :white_check_mark:Did you move the folders after changing the mounts too?
If not, you need to do that first.
Yup, I did!
Sorry misread the error there
Copied to the new location, and moved the old location to
thumbs.old etcCan you do the
ls command from inside the container
i.e. docker exec immich_server ls -la /usr/src/app/upload/thumbs/dbae834e-2cb3-4a05-9fe6-03cfdaf920b9/5b/d0/5bd08f04-aa8f-4349-8036-990298dfbef5-thumbnail.webp
without a problem!
I've also noticed that this doesn't happen always. If it happens, a restart of the server (
docker compose down, docker compose up -d) sometimes fixes the problemmmm
Wondering whether it's simply a matter of the file not being reachable yet when it's needed
You could run the "missing" thumbs job and see if your server complains about any other thumbs missing
I've also noticed that the
thumbs, backups, encoded-video directories reappear in the old /mnt/hetzner_storage_box/immich-library/ directory on startup. Also not sure where those appear fromit's a docker thing
Now on startup there is no problem at all, and running the missing thumbs job does nothing
I'm confused and I can't figure it out
Hurray
I wouldn't worry about it unless thumbs start missing in your GUI
Yeah sometimes they do, which is weird. I did have a mistake in my backup script though at first (stopping and starting the containers did not correctly add the bind mounts and such), but I think I fixed that
But maybe that is still a problem, I may need to check that again
Ah it seems I have the exact same issue as discussed here: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/11944
which is super annoying
Ugh