Migrating from TrueNAS Scale 24.10 to 25.04.2.4 - Directory in a mess
Hi, I recently upgraded to TrueNAS 25.04 so I will be having to migrate my data to the new database and reinstall Immich. Think is, and I warn you. During initial installation (which was on TrueNas 22 I believe) I placed everything in the same directory 🙃 (It was functional so I never bothered looking at it). I know what steps I have to take to do the migration, but I can't seem to decipher the original folder structure.
My help question then is, does anyone know which files belong where? (uploads, library, pgData, ect.) Again ⚠️ Be warned! Big mess! Does anyone know which of these files belong where? I attached a screenshot of the original setup as well. *See my other message
To orientate:
1acb...4e2cf & 6ece...c8fb contains my images (two accounts) - Where should these be located? (upload, library?)
pg_ directories & postresql.conf - Which of these should go into pgData?
immich_2024....sql - Seems like these are no longer in use as the latest is from 2024-11-23 (My instance last ran last week)
Further I found directories in /mnt/flash/ix-applications/releases/immich/volumes/ix_volumes (library, pgBackup, pgData, profile, thumbs, uploads, video) however these are all empty and also shouldn't been in use looking at my Storage Configuration.
Is this salvageable or am I just better off to start from scratch and sync my devices again?
Any help would be appreciated :)
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Hello! I will see if I can try to help you with that tomorrow (it's 1:30 am for me now)
No problem, thanks for taking the time
In the meantime If you do not have a backup of your data, make one
I think it is fixable but I rather be sure you have a backup
No worries, I've got one 👍
Sorry had no time today
Can you tell me on which timezone you're in? and maybe when you're available?
GMT+2 I'll be available from 16:30 if that's possible for you
Hi, sorry I forgot to ask yesterday
But I think that you could try to salvage that is some ways (not 100% sure it will work)
What I would do is switch from your "old data structure" to the new one
So like in the link, you create 2 new datasets
In the data dataset you'll have to manually create each folder so
Inside each of these folder you create a .immich file with the command
After that you'll have to copy your upload folders
you do it for both
all other are postgres related folders/files I think so you can do
Then you might have to reaply the ACL on both datasets
For each: Permissions -> Edit -> Tick the 3 Boxes "apply owner", "apply group" and "apply permissions recursively" (there will be a warning, just confirm"
Then click on Apply acl (or something like that, it's the big blue button)
Then edit your Immich app, untick the old storage structure and with the new one point data to your data dataset on hostpath and same for postgres point it to pgData
No worries
If there is anything you don't understand or need more help, ping me!
I will, thanks a lot!
And that is just a "guess" for a solution, so it might not work directly, there might be some stuff to modify/adapt, so lmk
Yeah so fyi, rsync kept ignoring the exlcude, so I ended up cd'ing into the old directory and did
*with my actual directory names
oh yeah my command was maybe wrong
as long as you found something that works, that is fine
Yeah, I though it was the syntax but even being in the root directory and using the full path didn't work. I don't know why
But no worries
tbh I used the exlude flag 2 times so I though it would have worked the way I showed, but it seems not 😄
That's the thing, you should be able to use it twice
It's currently installing, and I'm heading of
I'll give an update tomorrow
Thanks a lot
Well, I guess I need to figure out what the old password was
Not needed
Keep the app running
and run this command in terminal
which terminal?
TrueNAS shell
and replace new_secure_password with the one you put in Immich DB
oh wait mb
ix-immich-pgvecto-1 then?
coppied a bad command
yyeah
I modified it when I helped someone else
Do I need to restart it now, or keep it running?
Try to connect
to immich
if it does'nt work, restart
werll, restart anyway to be sure
Positive or negative?
Mmmh, that doesn't seem right
nvm I messed up
it's on ixvolume
wdym?
You did not set db to the host path where you copied all database fodlers?
yes
oh yeah, that explains it
https://immich.app/errors#typeorm-upgrade
gives a 404
Yes
Sorry
So you have to upgrade to 1.132.3 first
and after that transtion to latest
I'll give that a shot
I'll post a guide tomorrow
but I think I helped multiple people alraady
you have to convert your app to a custom app
and change the version number, as well as probably the data
Thanks a lot for the help man