Every day that I don't switch, immich keeps getting better!
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2025
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Yeah I've been waiting until it's updates stop breaking backwards compatibility. It's sounding better and better as time goes on.
This thing changes versions faster than I can update my homelab... Lol.
I've been running this setup for a few months now and haven't looked back. Works super well, and essentially acts as an approval process for letting a container update or not.
The author also recently added a followup article to this one for using Forgejo instead, made migrating the setup super easy.
This looks a lot more complicated that Watchtower. Is this something different or add other functionality?
Which isn't a great idea with all the breaking changes. I'd assume it gets better after v2, but still.
The 2.0 release resolves a large amount of technical debt and shifts the focus toward compatibility and easier upgrades.
Your comment is spreading false information. With the stable release the Immich team has committed to no breaking changes except for major version upgrades, so if you pin to 2.x.x you will be perfectly fine
That's what I thought, but last time I looked I only saw a "release" tag, no "v2" tag. Did I miss something?
I automate my upgrades, but I also automate my backups, and monitoring.
If an upgrade breaks something, my health monitor lets me know and I can roll back to the previous day.
What tools do you use for the monitoring, backup and rollback?
I use rsync to backup, I can delete and restore the whole drive if i want at any time.
I use watchtower to keep things updated. If you schedule the rsync and watchtower correctly, you can get the backup done before the upgrade and there's basically no lost data with the rollback.
I use uptime Kuma for monitoring, and it shoots me an email with details on what failed.
This is the way
I’m finally migrating from iCloud Photos to Immich next weekend. I finally have my NAS setup going
Can you please let us know how the transition went after a few weeks? I’m also considering the same but I’m also content with Apple Photos features like live photos etc.
I transitioned from Google photos to immich about a year ago:
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face recognition is absurdly much better
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searching for images is some black magic stuff
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it's generally faster
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it's map is really slow
Live Photos works in Immich.
One thing I really like about Apple photos is the memories that it suggests.
Immich also suggests photos. It works great under iOS.
Those who run immich, how have you been backing up your library?
My deployment isn't anything fancy, it is currently a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 2TB external drive for the photo library. Been running for more than 6 months with minimal issues. Now that we are at a stable release I need to get some kinda backup going for the photos themselves.
ZFS sending to a remotelab.
Borg backup runs every hour on all my docker folders
Nothing fancy. I use Backrest for all my backups, and a few of my plans just include the Immich directory. My NAS is an entirely separate machine so my local backups go there, while everything is simultaneously pushed to a backblaze bucket
I have Immich on a proxmox container and use proxmox backup. It has already save me once.
The same way as all other services: all relevant data (compose.yml and all volume mounts) are in a btrfs subvolume. Every night a snapshot gets made and mirrored to a remote server by btrbk.
how much do you pay for the remote server? was thinking about doing something like this for nextcloud (and i might end up using immich in the future)
That server is also a homeserver I manage for family (in another city). The two homeservers then mutually back up each other.
I run Immich in a VM on Proxmox which gets backed up every 12 hours and all my photos are on the NAS which gets snapshotted every 12 hours and pushed to an external drive and a Hetzner box.
Translation: "I run immich in a virtual machine, which I can manage from a web browser. The photos themselves are stored on a different device which gets backed up to a remote location twice a day."
So why run immich in a virtual machine instead of in, say, a docker? Wouldn't that be way less overhead? (Or is immich the only thing you're hosting?)
I clone the dirs nightly to a separate server + storage. Monthly to an offsite.
I run it baremetal, the photos / videos are all on a separate location (so are "Externsl Libraries" in Immich) and are backed up...
As far as the Immich application itself, I'm not currently backing up anything as I've been trialing it... but, I'll aim to backup any configurations, but I'm thinking to maybe ignore any database - it can just relearn everything if I need to do a restore.... depends how big that DB is...
Immich is such a cool piece of software 🤩
oh fuck me i missed the 2.0;-)
I mean, if you’re offering….
I love immich and as soon as the feature for automatic clean up for already backed up images is available it’s going to be perfect.
automatic stacking would be nice too
Has anyone be able to get memories to work. I don't get any notifications. I probably don't understand how that works. Any pointers except the official documentation will be helpful.
They show images from the same day in past years. So if your library has no images >= 1 year old I'm not sure if anything shows up.
Notifications? It doesn't give you notifications. It just shows it at the top in the main interface (if there are any).
