Immich•2mo ago

Immich and volume mapping issue

I am used to mapping volumes to docker containers in the traditional sense:

/mnt/self-hosted/immich:/immich

/mnt/self-hosted/immich:/immich

However, Immich install guide says:

    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the media storage location on your system, edit the value of UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data

    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the media storage location on your system, edit the value of UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data

I have tried doing:

      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/mnt/self-hosted/immich

      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/mnt/self-hosted/immich

and:

      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:data
      - /mnt/self-hosted/immich:/mnt/self-hosted/immich

      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:data
      - /mnt/self-hosted/immich:/mnt/self-hosted/immich

      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data

      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data

but with environment variable:

# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=./mnt/self-hosted/immich/library

# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=./mnt/self-hosted/immich/library

Where am I going wrong? All three ways I have tried will map to

/home/cat/self-hosted

/home/cat/self-hosted

instead of the desired

./mnt/self-hosted/immich

./mnt/self-hosted/immich

which lives in my root folder. I am using Linux Mint 22. My docker containers will live on the SSD, whilst the files are uploaded/managed on a HDD formatted to XFS.

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Immich•2mo ago

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Mraedis•2mo ago

You should leave the yml and definitely the right hand side alone As for the env, the dot at front means current directory, for an absolute path you have to remove that

Cat vs JadOP•2mo ago

I saw a guide on adding second drives, I am just concerned it will automatically upload files to the SSD and not the HDD right, I tried absolute path but it keeps making this:

/home/cat/self-hosted/mnt/self-hosted/immich/library

/home/cat/self-hosted/mnt/self-hosted/immich/library

Would you have an example of correct formatting I can try? wait let me try removing the dot not sure if I have yet nope, it did it again

/home/cat/self-hosted/mnt/self-hosted/immich

/home/cat/self-hosted/mnt/self-hosted/immich

Mraedis•2mo ago

That's pretty impossible unless you made a typo in one of the files

Cat vs JadOP•2mo ago

# You can find documentation for all the supported env variables at https://docs.immich.app/install/environment-variables

# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/self-hosted/immich/library

# The location where your database files are stored. Network shares are not supported for the database
DB_DATA_LOCATION=./postgres

# To set a timezone, uncomment the next line and change Etc/UTC to a TZ identifier from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#List
# TZ=Etc/UTC

# The Immich version to use. You can pin this to a specific version like "v1.71.0"
IMMICH_VERSION=release

# Connection secret for postgres. You should change it to a random password
# Please use only the characters `A-Za-z0-9`, without special characters or spaces
DB_PASSWORD=postgres

# The values below this line do not need to be changed
###################################################################################
DB_USERNAME=postgres
DB_DATABASE_NAME=immich

# You can find documentation for all the supported env variables at https://docs.immich.app/install/environment-variables

# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/self-hosted/immich/library

# The location where your database files are stored. Network shares are not supported for the database
DB_DATA_LOCATION=./postgres

# To set a timezone, uncomment the next line and change Etc/UTC to a TZ identifier from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#List
# TZ=Etc/UTC

# The Immich version to use. You can pin this to a specific version like "v1.71.0"
IMMICH_VERSION=release

# Connection secret for postgres. You should change it to a random password
# Please use only the characters `A-Za-z0-9`, without special characters or spaces
DB_PASSWORD=postgres

# The values below this line do not need to be changed
###################################################################################
DB_USERNAME=postgres
DB_DATABASE_NAME=immich

Mraedis•2mo ago

Which at this point seems pretty likely And the volumes section?

Cat vs JadOP•2mo ago

  immich-server:
    container_name: immich_server
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
    extends:
      file: hwaccel.transcoding.yml
      service: nvenc # set to one of [nvenc, quicksync, rkmpp, vaapi, vaapi-wsl] for accelerated transcoding
    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the media storage location on your system, edit the value of UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file
        - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data
        - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    env_file:
      - .env
    ports:
      - '2283:2283'
    depends_on:
      - redis
      - database
    restart: always
    healthcheck:
        disable: false
    networks:
      self_hosted:

  immich-server:
    container_name: immich_server
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
    extends:
      file: hwaccel.transcoding.yml
      service: nvenc # set to one of [nvenc, quicksync, rkmpp, vaapi, vaapi-wsl] for accelerated transcoding
    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the media storage location on your system, edit the value of UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file
        - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data
        - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    env_file:
      - .env
    ports:
      - '2283:2283'
    depends_on:
      - redis
      - database
    restart: always
    healthcheck:
        disable: false
    networks:
      self_hosted:

Mraedis•2mo ago

Are you doing compose up or just docker start

Cat vs JadOP•2mo ago

compose up docker compose up -d normally you would map desiredpath:containerpath, but because this is doing an env variable, you would think changing the env variable would be the desired path, but it flat out refuses to do it

Mraedis•2mo ago

Could you also delete the postgres folder so it starts fresh?

Cat vs JadOP•2mo ago

aiit

Mraedis•2mo ago

You can also just put it directly in the yml if that's what you prefer btw

Cat vs JadOP•2mo ago

we have progress, the postgres db was made on the ssd /home/cat/self-hosted/postgres and the library is now on the mounted drive thank you! now as for the DB, this isn't a large file at some point is it? It is only a poopy 250GB SSD

Mraedis•2mo ago

Mine is about 2gb

Cat vs JadOP•2mo ago

noice okay so it will be fine Thank you! Now to the next issue we find :KEKJavaScript:

Immich•2mo ago

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Cat vs JadOP•2mo ago

Absolute legend @Mraedis for your time. Thank you

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