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Immich3mo ago
siaboyi

Backup Script excludes /encoded-video, while System Integrity requires it

I just tested the backup script documented here and when testing the restoration I noticed that following errors are logged:
  • immich_server | [Nest] 7 - 10/16/2025, 4:18:07 PM ERROR [Microservices:StorageService] Failed to read (/usr/src/app/upload/encoded-video/.immich): Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/usr/src/app/upload/encoded-video/.immich'
After adding the file manually, there seem to exist entries in the DB that reference non-existent (until transcoded) files, that lead to (non-catastrophic) errors.

Am I doing anything wrong or is this expected behaviour? As the first error is fatal and blocks starting the server in the first place, I think this should be documented.
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