Is it easier to just backup the immich container instead of the immich database?
I’ve just got immich running on docker desktop on an old windows machine, and I can believe how smooth it is. I use Tailscale to complete the package and have remote access.
I’ve now decided that I want to make immich my primary photo solution, (as well as backups of the photos already on multiple hard drives.
So I’m wanting to learn or put in place a backup solution. But having read the documentation I get a little confused as to what i need to back up. Would it just be easier for me to just backup the container?
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Successfully submitted, a tag has been added to inform contributors. :white_check_mark:Would it just be easier for me to just backup the container?No, that's basically never the right way to go You need to make a database dump (or use the built-in system to do that), then back up that dump and the media files in UPLOAD_LOCATION
So my understanding is these dumps are created automatically?
If Immich is configured to do so
https://my.immich.app/admin/system-settings?isOpen=backup
I have dumps under pictures/backups
Can i just store them in a folder called backup, wit the dump folder and upload folder
In a different location
You mean just a copy? That's not really a backup
You should use an actual backup tool, and have multiple versions in different places
So when people say "x is not a backup tool" what they are actually saying is "you probably don't actually want a single point in time copy of your data", which is what that tool is doing.
And that "backup tools" exist today that:
- can run on a schedule
- only copy new/changed data (incremental)
keep track of changes over time in the backup, with the option to restore to a previous version
This gives you the ability to recover a file that was deleted some time ago, restore to a point prior to data corruption, etc., all while being space efficient (similar blocks are deduplicated)
Popular backup tools are restic and borg.
Are there any gui backup tools that run on windows?
Probably
Backrest looks to be a gui for rustic