Unraid CA: Restoring Immich with a Database and Uploads Folder
Hello,
Thank you for taking the time to read my question.
Context: Earlier today I experienced a power outage which resulted in a corrupted unraid os. As part of the recovery process, I reinstalled unraid.
Question 1: How do I restore [or reinstall] Immich, preserving metadata like albums.
Current Status: Unraid [7.1.4] and Docker function. All uploads and database dumps are still accessible on the data drives. Postgres will not initialize as the database folder already contains a database. I have made a backup of the most recent database dump and the entire /Uploads folder.
Question 2: Are the /Uploads folder and database dump all that is needed to restore immich [completely] from a fresh install? My current plan is to wipe and reupload assets, but I'm also concerned that stuff like user accounts and other settings might need to be remade.
Question 3: How complete will the Immich restore be with the the /uploads and database dump? Will it include user accounts in addition to albums and other metadata?
Thanks in advance for your replies.
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.Docker compose and env files were not used to install this instance.
no recent changes to immich; needed to reinstall the OS it was running on.
System Info: Unraid [7.1.4] CPU: Ryzen 5 pro 3400G, 32 GBS ram, One parity drive, Two data drives. one nvme ssd as a cache pool.
Data drives are xfs, cache drive also xfs
Attempted to run the Immich_PostgreSQL on the new unraid install.
Confirmed old database dumps and uploads uncorrupted.
User accounts etc are in the database
thanks, I'll begin the process.
Hi, sorry to come back.
When running the restore script [specifically the gunzip section] in the postgres container terminal, it returns 'docker not found.'
Sounds like you don't have docker installed?
I do have docker installed. The container wouldn't be running without it
I appreciate the help
You're running that inside of the postgres container
ok. I swapped to the terminal, and I'm running the restore database command
I'm not quite seeing the syntax error
sincere apologies, I'm still new to both docker and linux in general. Just got this set up and working a few weeks before the power outage.
how do I ensure that the postgres container can access the database location? I copied the database location to a new path, and gave the container access via adding a path in the container interface. I keep getting 'file or directory not found' despite taking the exact path and file name and placing it into the commands as mentioned in the documentation
the server is now up, thanks for your earlier help. It allowed me to get started on the path.
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