Post Restore not starting
Hey I’ve moved systems and attempted to restore a backup but when i run everything and follow restore instructions, docker ps shows immich_server is stuck on restarting.
compose was copy pasted from the default and not touched.
my environment variables are
UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/shares/immich
DB_DATA_LOCATION=/home/wdreyer/docker/immich/db
TZ=America/New_York
IMMICH_VERSION=release
DB_PASSWORD=thisisasecurepassword
DB_USERNAME=postgres
DB_DATABASE_NAME=immich
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.i have an archive of the stopped db folder when it was originally set up, but i tried that and it didn’t work either
[Nest] 7 - 06/23/2025, 12:05:32 PM ERROR [Microservices:StorageService] Failed to write upload/encoded-video/.immich: Error: EACCES: permission denied, open 'upload/encoded-video/.immich'
there's a permission issue with your UPLOAD_LOCATION mount point
as it says permission denied
yeah i realized that after the fact, prob has to do with the nfs share
i’m trying to apply permissions recursively