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Immich and storage location (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 years ago by skates@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place. I'm planning on using immich for selfhosted photo storage. I'm a bit worried that I may lose all my photos if my drive fails, so I'm planning on running two hdd's in raid 1 in addition to my nvme that I'm running my OS on.

I couldn't find this when I googled it, but is it possible to point immich to store data on a separate internal drive other than the one that the OS is running on?

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[–] skates@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I just googled restic, so does it just create a single encrypted backup file you can upload to backblaze b2 cloud storage? I will definitely look into that.

For now, immich is just another safety net. I've got my photos backed up to iCloud photos as well as Google Photos. It's not a price or privacy thing so much as a just in case Google or Apple decides to shut down my account for whatever reason.

I may skip running two hdd's in raid 1 though if restic and b2 can restore all my files if the drive fails. Have you done this before? Is it difficult to restore to a backup?

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Restic does nit create a single backup file. You can either pack the repository in an archive or use restic do directly backup to b2. If i recall correctly b2 is supported by restic directly.

And just to stress that point: backup > redundancy