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I was juggling like that, I had most of my files in NTFS so I could read them in windows, even for files read only by Linux programs.
Most programs were able to read from any part of the file system, but for those with strict paths I used symlinks.

But I haven't had any use for Windows lately so I decided to delete all but one NTFS partition and this last one is only 256GB with 100GB free.
The rest of the data I moved it to ext4 and btrf partitions.

In that case I'd recommen you use immich-go to upload them and still backup only immich instead of your original folder, since if something happens to your immich library you'd have to manually recreate it because immich doesn't update its db from the file system.
There was a discussion in github about worries of data being compressed in immich, but it was clarified the uploaded files are saved as they are and only copies are modified, so you can safely backup its library.

I'm not familiar with RAID, but yeah, I've also read its mostly about up time.

I'd also recommend you look at restic and duplocati.
Both are backup tools, restic is a CLI and duplocati is a service with an ui.
So if you want to create the crons go for restic.
Tho if you want to be able to read your backups manually maybe check how the data is stored, because I'm using duplicati and it saves it in files that need to be read by duplicati, I'm not sure if I could go and easily open them unlike the data copied with rsync.

Unless they've changed how it works I can confirm.
Some months ago I was testing lemmy in my local I used the same URL to create a new post, it never showed up in the ui, it was because Lemmy treated it as a crosspost and hid it under the older one.
At that time it was only a crosspost jf the URL was the same, I'm not so sure about the title, but the body could be different.

The thing would be to verify if this grouping is being done by the UI or by the server, which might explain some UIs showing duplicated posts.

For local backups I use this command

$ rsync --update -ahr --no-i-r --info=progress2 /source /dest

You could first compress them, but since I have the space for the important stuff, this is the only command I need.

Recently I also made a migration similar to yours.

I've read jellyfin is hard to migrate, so I just reinstalled it and manually recreated the libraries, I didn't mind about the watch history and other stuff.
IIRC there's a post or github repo with a script to try to migrate jellyfin.

For immich you just have to copy this database files with the same command above and that's it (of course with the stack down, you don't want to copy db files while the database is running).
For the library I already had it in an external drive with a symlink, so I just had to mount it in the new machine and create a simlar symlink.

I don't run any *arr so I don't know how they'd be handled.
But I did do the migrarion of syncthing and duplicati.
For syncthing I just had to find the config path and I copied it with the same command above.
(You might need to run chown in the new machine).

For duplicati it was easier since it provides a way to export and import the configurations.

So depending on how the *arr programs handle their files it can be as easy as find their root directory and rsync it.
Maybe this could also be done for jellyfin.
Of course be sure to look for all config folders they need, some programs might split them into their working directory, into ~/.config, or ./.local, or /etc, or any other custom path.

EDIT: for jellyfin data, evaluate how hard to find is, it might be difficult, but if it's possible it doesn't require the same level of backups as your immich data, because immich normally holds data you created and can't be found anywhere else.

Most series I have them in just the main jellyfin drive.
But immich is backedup with 3-2-1, 3 copies of the data (I actually have 4), in at least 2 types of media (HDD and SSD), with 1 being offsite (rclone encrypted into e2 drive)

Just tried it and seems too complicated haha. With traccar I just had to deploy a single service and use either the official app or previously gpslogger sending the data to an endpoint.

With owntracks the main documentation seems to be deploy it into the base system, docker is kind of hidden.
And with docker you need to deploy at least 3 services: recorder, Mosquitto, and the front end.
The app doesn't tell you what's expected to be filled into the fields to connect to the backend. I tried with https but haven't been able to make it work.

To be fair, this has been just today. But as long as a service has a docker compose I've always been able to deploy it in less than 10 minutes, and the rest of the day is just customizing the service.

It looks amazing!

How well fitted would this be for a Google maps timeline replacement?

I see you mention we need to upload the files which maybe could be obtained from an app like https://github.com/mendhak/gpslogger
I already had a flow to have them on my server with syncthing, so I could easily use your api to process them.

The thing would be to have each trail be marked as each day and have a way of showing them nicely (I haven't tested everything in the demo hehe).

Is there a plan to be able to process any GPS standard to automatically generate the trails?

I'm currently using traccar, but it looks more like a fleet management than something to remember where you've been.

I can share you a bit my journey and setups so maybe you can take a better decision.

About point 1:

In vultr with the second smallest shared CPU (1vCPU, 2GB RAM) several of my services have been running fine for years now:
invidious, squid proxy, TODO app (vikunja), bookmarks (grimoire), key-value storage (kinto), git forge (forgejo) with CI/CD (forgejo actions), freshrss, archival (archive-box), GPS tracker (traccar), notes (trilium), authentication (authelia), monitoring (munin).
The thing is since I'm the only one using them usually only one or two services receive considerable usage, and I'm kind of patient so if something takes 1 minute instead of 10 seconds I'm fine with it. This is rare to happen, maybe only forgejo actions or the archival.

In my main pc I was hosting some stuff too: immich, jellyfin, syncthing, and duplicati.

Just recently bought this minipc https://aoostar.com/products/aoostar-r7-2-bay-nas-amd-ryzen-7-5700u-mini-pc8c-16t-up-to-4-3ghz-with-w11-pro-ddr4-16gb-ram-512gb-nvme-ssd
(Although I bought it from amazon so I didn't had to handle the import.)

Haven't moved anything off of the VPS, but I think this will be enough for a lot of stuff I have because of the specs of the VPS.
The ones I've moved are the ones from my main PC.
Transcoding for jellyfin is not an issue since I already preprocessed my library to the formats my devices accept, so only immich could cause issues when uploading my photos.

Right now the VPS is around 0.3 CPU, 1.1/1.92GB RAM, 2.26/4.8GB swap.
The minipc is around 2.0CPU (most likely because duplicati is running right now), 3/16GB RAM, no swap.

There are several options for minipc even with potential to upgrade ram and storage like the one I bought.
Here's a spreadsheet I found with very good data on different options so you can easily compare them and find something that matches your needs https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SWqLJ6tGmYHzqGaa4RZs54iw7C1uLcTU_rLTRHTOzaA/edit
(Here's the original post where I found it https://www.reddit.com/r/MiniPCs/comments/1afzkt5/2024_general_mini_pc_guide_usa/ )

For storage I don't have any comments since I'm still using a 512GB nvme and a 1TB external HDD, the minipc is basically my start setup for having a NAS which I plan to fill with drives when I find any in sale (I even bought it without ram and storage since I had spare ones).

But I do have some huge files around, they are in https://www.idrive.com/s3-storage-e2/
Using rclone I can easily have it mounted like any other drive and there's no need to worry of being on the cloud since rclone has an encrypt option.
Of course this is a temporary solution since it's cheaper to buy a drive for the long term (I also use it for my backups tho)

About point 2:

If you go the route of using only linux sshfs is very easy to use, I can easily connect from the files app or mount it via fstab. And for permissions you can easily manage everything with a new user and ACLs.

If you need to access it from windows I think your best bet will be to use samba, I think there are several services for this, I was using OpenMediaVault since it was the only one compatible with ARM when I was using a raspberry pi, but when you install it it takes over all your net interfaces and disables wifi, so you have to connect via ethernet to re-enable it.

About point 3:

In the VPS I also had pihole and searxng, but I had to move those to a separate instance since if I had something eating up the resources browsing internet was a pain hehe.

Probably my most critical services will remain in the VPS (like pihole, searxng, authelia, squid proxy, GPS tracker) since I don't have to worry about my power or internet going down or something that might prevent me from fixing stuff or from my minipc being overloaded with tasks that browsing the internet comes to a crawl (specially since I also ran stuff like whispercpp and llamacpp which basically makes the CPU unusable for a bit :P ).

About point 4:

To access everything I use tailscale and I was able to close all my ports while still being able to easily access everything in my main or mini pc without changing anything in my router.

If you need to give access to someone I'd advice for you to share your pihole node and the machine running the service.
And in their account a split DNS can be setup to only let them handle your domains by your pihole, everything else can still be with their own DNS.

If this is not possible and you need your service open on the internet I'd suggest having a VPS with a reverse proxy running tailscale so it can communicate with your service when it receive the requests while still not opening your lan to the internet.
Another option is tailscale funnel, but I think you're bound to the domain they give you. I haven't tried it so you'd need to confirm.

I use https://lemmyverse.net/
You can search for all communities of all instances, or click in a specific instance.

https://lemmyverse.net/instance/programming.dev/communities

A note taking app can be turned into a diary app if you only create notes for each day.
Even better if you want to then expand a section of a diary entry without actually modifying it nor jumping between apps.

Obsidian can easily help you tag and link each note and theme/topic in each of them.
There are several plugins for creating daily notes which will be your diary entries.
Also it's local only, you can pair it with any sync service, the obsidian provided one, git, any cloud storage, or ones which work directly with the files like syncthing.

Just curious, what are the special features you expect from a diary service/app which a note taking one doesn't have?

Found that also myself trying to do the same thing haha. I did the same process as OP, gparted took 2.5 hours in my 1TB HDD to create a new partition, then copying the data from old to new partition was painfully slow, so I went to copy it to another dive and into the new partition.
Afterwards I deleted the old partition and grew the new one, which took a bit more than 1.5 hours.

If I had the space I would have copied all the data out of the drive, formatted it and then copied back into. It would have been quicker.

Glad to see you solved the issue, I just want to point out that this might happen again if you forget your db is in a volume controlled by docker, better to put it in a folder you know.

Last month immich released an update to the compose file for this, you need to manually change some part.
Here's the post in this community https://lemmy.ml/post/14671585

Also I'll include you this link in the same post, I moved the data from the docker volume to my specific one without issue.
https://lemmy.pe1uca.dev/comment/2546192

Or maybe another option is to make backups of the db. I saw this project some time ago, haven't implemented it on my services, but it looks interesting.
https://github.com/prodrigestivill/docker-postgres-backup-local

how do I do a fresh install of an older app version on a new device?

You can directly use the files from the github repo, just look for the release your server is on and install that apk.