Immich•3mo ago

question about backup my immich server

So, i deployed immich using the official Docker Compose configuration. I mapped the library and postgres folders. However, I seem to understand from the official documentation that in addition to backing up these two folders, I also need to use docker exec to back up a database within Docker. Is this database the same as the database dump in immich? If I use the latter backup method, does the restore method follow the same procedure as the former?

Immich•9/23/25, 3:29 AM

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teh g•9/23/25, 5:15 AM

The automatic database dump would suffice for the structure of Immich. You’d want to make sure you backed your the structure of your photos too

teh g•9/23/25, 5:16 AM

You don’t need to to run a scheduled manual backup of the DB by running docker exec. That’s more for it you want to do some change ahead of time

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