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Immich•3y ago
yowmamasita

Restore from data directory without database data?

Is it possible to restore without reimporting everything again from my data folder? My immich server was corrupted without backups but I was able to recover all the uploaded files from an older backup. 
~/s/i/i/immich-data ❯❯❯ tree -L 2
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├── 0a9d3e37-3de5-4465-aaac-f432e9da8d40
│   ├── 2013
│   ├── 2014
│   ├── 2015
│   ├── 2016
│   ├── 2017
│   ├── 2018
│   ├── 2019
│   ├── 2020
│   ├── 2021
│   ├── 2022
│   ├── 2023
│   ├── encoded-video
│   ├── original
│   └── thumb
└── 6838fc95-dd73-49ee-8f67-b2cf84a9ec07
    ├── 2015
    ├── 2018
    ├── 2019
    ├── 2020
    ├── 2021
    ├── 2022
    ├── 2023
    ├── encoded-video
    ├── original
    └── thumb

26 directories, 0 files
~/s/i/i/immich-data ❯❯❯ tree -L 2
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├── 0a9d3e37-3de5-4465-aaac-f432e9da8d40
│   ├── 2013
│   ├── 2014
│   ├── 2015
│   ├── 2016
│   ├── 2017
│   ├── 2018
│   ├── 2019
│   ├── 2020
│   ├── 2021
│   ├── 2022
│   ├── 2023
│   ├── encoded-video
│   ├── original
│   └── thumb
└── 6838fc95-dd73-49ee-8f67-b2cf84a9ec07
    ├── 2015
    ├── 2018
    ├── 2019
    ├── 2020
    ├── 2021
    ├── 2022
    ├── 2023
    ├── encoded-video
    ├── original
    └── thumb

26 directories, 0 files
1 Reply
bo0tzz
bo0tzz•3y ago
Unfortunately not, you'll need to import everything again

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