madFisa
IImmich
•Created by madFisa on 2/23/2023 in #help-desk-support
Recovering from an old database
Hi,
I recently set up the immich server (using docker) and its awesome. I loved it so much that, I uploaded my 50GBish worth of photos and spent time arranging them into Albums. But at a later time (few days later), for some reason my docker daemon stopped responding and I had to uninstall docker and reinstall it to get working.
After reinstalling docker and setting up the immich containers once again, I realized that the new server has none of the photos and new administrator/user has new unique id which was different from the old one and all the photos were gone. Renaming the old photos directory with new id didn't help either.
So, my guess is that immich stores the information about the photos in a separate format (I'm assuming some kind of database) independently of photos and my albums are probably gone for good 😦
But is there a way to reuse my old directory with photos instead of re uploading the entire 50 GB of photos again?
Also as an different question, is there a way to back up the albums (and the metadata?) information independently?
I'm new to whole self-hosting thing, so I aplogize if I am missing something obvious.
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