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Immich help, please -- Am I boned now? (lemm.ee)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Ohboy. Tonight I:

  • installed a cool docker monitoring app called dockge
  • started moving docker compose files from random other folders into one centralized place (/opt/dockers if that matters)
  • got to immich, brought the container down
  • moved the docker-compose.yml into my new folder
  • docker compose up -d
  • saw errors saying it didn't have a DB name to work with, so it created a new database

panik

  • docker compose down
  • copy old .env file from the old directory into the new folder!
  • hold breath
  • docker compose up -d

Welcome to Immich! Let's get started...

Awwwwww, crud.

Anything I can do at this point?

No immich DB backup but I do have the images themselves.

EDIT: Thanks to u/atzanteol I figured out that changing the folder name caused this too. I changed the docker folder's name back to the original name and got my DB back! yay

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[–] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 2 points 5 months ago

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