Immich•3y ago

Backup all assets in Immich

I currently have all my assets stored only on Immich.. I know, I know, very bad, all responsibility is mine if I lose my photos. And I'm not too worrried about losing them anyways.

Anyways, I wanted to be more responsible, so what's the best way to back up an entire Immich library to an external drive?

Alex Tran•11/21/23, 4:36 AM

I backup my photos to Backblaze storage as cold backup

foxyOP•11/21/23, 4:38 AM

Is there any straightforward way to backup everything in the Immich library to an external drive? Or will I have to copy over the docker volume? Also about the backblaze, the whole reason I like Immich is because my data stays local

Alex Tran•11/21/23, 4:43 AM

true, but if your house burned down, you will lose the data, right?

Alex Tran•11/21/23, 4:44 AM

so you will need an offsite backup strategy

Alex Tran•11/21/23, 4:44 AM

my choice is to use B2 storage, encrypted

Alex Tran•11/21/23, 4:44 AM

you can use Duplicaty or Restic as the backup client

Alex Tran•11/21/23, 4:44 AM

Restic is better AFAIK

vlad•11/21/23, 5:50 AM

A raspberry PI, NAS, Synology would work as an offsite backup if one doesn't want to use an online service.

You could also use a script when plugging in an external HDD, starting a rsync job. Unplug and store somewhere else when finished.