nowak
IImmich
•Created by nowak on 3/12/2025 in #help-desk-support
synology immich update from v1.111.0 - best strategie?
Hi
I managed to install Immich last year on my Synology NAS DS223.
So my Installation was v1.111.0
Since I'm so happy with Immich and it reminds me about all the new versions, I thought, now it's the time to update and get all the good goodies.
Do this first for ANYBODY who has no knowledge about container manager like me and want's to update, it saved my work!
https://immich.app/docs/administration/backup-and-restore
I happily made a backup from ssh:
sudo docker exec -t immich_postgres pg_dumpall --clean --if-exists --username=postgres | gzip > "/volume1/docker/immich-app-backup/backup/v1.111.sql.gz"
But my Container Manager didn't show any new versions.
So I did, what maybe you shouldn't do?
I changed my .env file from:
not sure if the value was "latest" or "release"
IMMICH_VERSION=release
to
IMMICH_VERSION=v1.129.0
It did download and install everything without any erorrs, but after this I couldn't access Immich anymore.
I managed to restore the containers again to "IMMICH_VERSION=v1.111.0" and make a "clean" build, so I could restore the DB, since it was "corrupt" after the v.129.0.
After searching all links, I found this:
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases?page=3
and managed to update from v1.111.0 to v1.117.0 again, with just changing
IMMICH_VERSION=v1.117.0
Since this was the first version with "Breaking changes".
So is my idea, how to update on synology container manager correct?
1. make a DB backup from the current running version.
2. read the release notes from existing to next and as soon a breaking changes is noted, take this "major" version
3. just adjust the IMMICH_VERSION placeholder and run rebuild and only check my "docker-composer.yml" if explicitly noted in the "braking changes"
I know this is a beginner question, but I didn't find any youtube videos on updating Immich with Synology. Only First installation - which are good.
I'm not sure, if I'm doing it the right way.
Any Tipps are welcome
thank you
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