Best way to use external storage?
I want to keep immich on my main server but move storage and machine learning to a different machine. Would much prefer to use TrueNAS for storage as rebuilding dead drives Is much easier.
How do i set this up? I want all photos to be stored on the proxmox and not in the docker. Docker will have 32gb storage and TrueNAS will have 2tb of HDD or SSD. And how do I get the storage space % to show what's left on the storage server. Thanks
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I'm writing from very basic knowledge.
I just installed Immich on truenas. What I did was this : (also do note that there's a #truenas channel)
- use Dockge to manage my Dockers
- created in truenas a dataset structure with 2 child datasets : upload & data
upload will have all the pictures while data will have the database.
from there, you can run replication jobs from truenas on the upload dataset (or the whole immich dataset + children)
Why not NFS or Samba?
ah, you want to use proxmox to run the service ?
then indeed exposing truenas datasets through SMB or NFS would be one way to do it. you'd just need to mount the volumes in proxmox. 👍
So what someone told me ages ago is that in the docker you mount your truenas IP and then tell immich to upload to there. Instead you say to mount TrueNAS in proxmox and use that to install immich. So that's the only thing immich is even aware of?
it depends on your deployment on how you connect your proxmox services to truenas. Is truenas on proxmox or is it a seperate box ? etc...
there are many ways to share volumes with truenas. there are some pros and cons to each, and they depend on your environment : what one person does might not fit your use-case.
in short, if you want to benefit from Truenas' storage management, you "just" need to tell your immich docker compose that the upload folder is <path to truenas dataset>
I'm all native in truenas, so I just use
with an external library that contains all my existing photos defined as an extra volume in the docker compose :
but since you're running immich on proxmox and not on truenas, you need a way to share the dataset. NFS or SMB both can do the trick.
do note that I would NOT recommend using truenas as the host for Immich even if it's what I do because you already have proxmox, and I believe it's better to keep services seperate : proxmox manages services and truenas manages storage.