Help migrating from Docker to LXC
I've been using immich via Docker, it's been working fine. Now that there is a community LXC version, I'd like to migrate my library
It doesn't seem to be trivial. I was able to restore one of the PSQL dumps/backups, but I also need to deal with the
upload dir.
On my docker setup, I have both my library and my upload folder pointing to a NAS via SMB. Here's an excerpt of the docker-compose file:
Now back on the LXC, I tried to create a symlink from /mnt/photos/.immich/upload to /opt/immich/upload (the NAS is mounted on /mnt/photos).Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts
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Successfully submitted, a tag has been added to inform contributors. :white_check_mark:I did all that with the immich services (web and ml) stopped, and when I tried to start the web service, the logs showed this error:
What did I do wrong? is there any step missing?
is the folder empty or you already copied/moved your stuff?
if the folder is empty, Immich is expecting its control files there, since the database contains data (I understand you imported a dump already)
if is not empty, the permissions are wrong
I didn't have to copy move, I simple mounted the same NAS folder I was using with Docker
I guess maybe it could be permission then 🤔
This does not look right at all:
device: //${SMB_HOST}/photos/.immich
you are mounting a hidden file as a volume?Yes, that was sorta intentional, I just wanted to keep the immich files in the same share, but not mixed with the actual photos, so I created that directory. Then in the external libraries configs I set that dir to be ignored
I could have done it differently, for sure
why don't you try mounting that folder on the host instead so you can show us the mount point and the contents
the SMB is indeed mounted in the proxmox host, then I set it to be shared with the container:
pct set 201 -mp0 /mnt/photos,mp=/mnt/photosgot it. TBH we do not support either LXC or the helper scripts (it seems to have hardcoded paths using /opt which will make the migration quite hard as the immich DB uses hardcoded file paths currently )
/mnt/photos contains all my pics + that .immich dirso I would recommend to reach out to their team
okay, I'll try asking there. Just hope I don't need to start from scratch
and that they don't say "you should ask the immich guys" XD
Well, you could always go back to a VM like we recommend
sure, I did not get rid of my docker setup yet