• ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          20 days ago

          Check release notes before you upgrade and see what it’s going to break. Immich introduces breaking changes quite often at this point.

        • Terry@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          19 days ago

          As in "While the photos are still in your storage, the DB is gone for good and a manual reimport from the existing files is not possible, so you have three options:

          • Restoring the DB from a working backup
          • Reinstalling and reuploading the data
          • Reinstalling and importing the existing data as external libraries - which will lead to duplicates in your users galleries as soon as their devices sync themselves with Immich"

          Honestly, you really don’t want options 2 and 3. Just make sure you’ve got good backups of everything. My DB is backed up daily and I keep periodic backups for up to three years just to be sure.

      • Luca@feddit.it
        3·
        20 days ago

        Mainly no breaking changes. In the past I had to manually fix it on my server a few times.

        • warmaster@lemmy.world
          1·
          20 days ago

          Yeah, I’m waiting for the same thing. Have you tried Ente ? It looks like more mature but with less features, is that right?

          • Luca@feddit.it
            1·
            20 days ago

            I didn’t know about it before you told me. It looks nice but I haven’t tried it yet so I don’t have an opinion on it.

  • Frypant@lemmy.world
    6·
    20 days ago

    I’m thinking about self hosting my photo library, do I have to keep it up-to-date constantly to keep compatibility with the android app?

    • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      20 days ago

      Nope, they recommend against updating without carefully studying the changelog

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
      4·
      20 days ago

      Just don’t let it go too stale, I recommend updating it a few days or a week after a release gets made, since sometimes there are patches for important stuff released the next day or so after a minor one. That being said what I do is I have an RSS feed for their releases so I get a notification when a new release has been made and can check the changelog for important information, most of the times it’s just bumping the version on the .env file.

        • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
          1·
          19 days ago

          You can, just put latest as the version. That’s what I do for most other stuff. HOWEVER immich sometimes has breaking changes, so doing this is dangerous, I’ve broken my install twice because of it, and decided to switch to manual version and check the changelog, it’s less work than using latest and fixing when things break.

        • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          19 days ago

          There has been about 3 times where auto updating has broken immich for me. But I just go read the docs and there has always been notes on what you need to do to get it working again. 5 mins later its back up and running.

    • vintageballs@feddit.orgDeutsch
      3·
      20 days ago

      The app will complain if the server has an incompatible version. Have had it happen a few times, but usually two or three minor versions difference should be okay.

  • dderg@lemmy.world
    5·
    20 days ago

    Is there support for HDR photos though? Last time I checked there wasn’t, is it time to switch?

    • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      20 days ago

      Chunking and the ability to rotate an image. I guess those features aren’t sexy.

        • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          19 days ago

          It breaks large uploads into smaller chunks. If you’re hosting behind a reverse proxy and using cloudflare, there’s I think a 100MB upload limit. Can pose a problem for importing some videos.

  • penquin@lemm.ee
    3·
    19 days ago

    Does it work with Synology NAS? Last time I checked it didn’t. I’d love to use it.

      • Omacitin@lemmy.world
        1·
        19 days ago

        I’m running it on a DS918+ right now. I copied-pasted their docker-compose file and had it up in half an hour or so.

        • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          19 days ago

          It’s basically 5 steps listed here https://immich.app/docs/install/docker-compose

          If you’re new to docker it will seem like a lot, but they’ve taken care of most of the work for you already in the docker compose file.

          mkdir immich && cd immich

          wget -O docker-compose.yml https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml

          wget -O .env https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/example.env

          nano .env and change the upload location if needed (by default it will be in the ‘immich’ directory we’re in) and the timezone.

          docker compose up -d

          Now it’s running on http://ip:2283

          Then to upgrade later on switch to the ‘immich’ directory again, do a docker compose pull and docker compose up -d