External images and imports
small question, so i dont have really really powerful server that can generate thumbnails and all required stuff when adding an external library to immich, which for me would be my external ssd that has quite few gb of images and videos. Im wondering is it possible that i somehow do those on my pc and then move over that all done data to server so its just view only, i would want to disable uploading to the instance
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.It's possible, you'll need to run Immich on the computer where you want to process all the files, when you're done you'll need to take a backup of the database + and the files and transfer them to the weak server so you can see them in "view only" mode.
As for disabling the option to upload files, it's not a built-in option, but I know that @bo0tzz implemented it in the demo version of Immich, so maybe he can give direction.
I'd try to run it on the server first with concurrency set to 1. Maybe it'll be fine
thumbnail gen isnt too taxing on hardware at concurrency 1, turn off Video Transcode though
ML will be touch and go
i mean it likely will but it'll take ages, and my pc has 4090 gpu so i can run cuda
Give us some more details on the server hardware and size of your library, because it may well be that the time you take to configure this all and ask about it the job would have been done 😛
i tried before lol, server took 2h to process roughly 2k files, and i have them ~70k
I don't see any hardware details there 👀
Also as your pc is beefy you can set it up to act as an additional, hardware accelerating remote machine learning container. Works very nice. But that's not for snapshot generation.
As was pointed out already you can do it on your pc, and then backup and restore, quite easy.
Remote ML does nothing for thumb generation and such, that's for remote workers which is quite a bit more involved
Yy just wanted to mention it as he has a beefy pc
intel n100
for server
You should look at enabling QSV first
i mean
isnt still a gpu faster and better for encoding and creating such
and also
Yes, but remote ML is easy while remote transcoding is not
Also, the N100 supports QSV just fine
hm do you have and good website to get started from, not really into such stuff
https://immich.app/docs/features/hardware-transcoding/ our own docs? 😛
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