Durneztj
IImmich
•Created by Durneztj on 8/3/2023 in #help-desk-support
Migrating from huge Photoprism install, Immmich storage method confusion (wrt Backup solution)
I want to move on from photoprism to Immich because I only use my phone anymore for taking and viewing pictures and Immich seems a much better alternative here. However I have read all the docs and still can't 100% understand how the photo storage works.
I have a 500GB folder of photos on a hard drive (which is backed up daily to a cloud backup storage with Duplicati), and organised into folders per event/travel. Photoprism just watches and ingests this folder without touching the structure. But as I understand Immich needs a different storage or at least requires me to 'move' my collection from the local file system through importing them in Immich which will store it in Immich's defined storage. Now my question is, what is this storage, is it just a file structure which I can just point my backup software to?
Please tell me if my questions seem unclear but at the moment I do not understand the Immich architecture enough to formulate them 'better'
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