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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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[–] ShouldIHaveFun@lemmy.pec0ra.ch 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If you run immich with docker, you can choose any drive/folder for your photos by mounting it at the right location inside the docker container.

However, I would strongly suggest that you also use some other kind of backup beside rest. I personally like restic combined with Backblaze B2, but there are many other good solutions for this.

[–] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I agree, OP please do proper backups, because RAID is not a backup.

Borg is another great option for doing backups.

[–] skates@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah the only thing I'll need to backup will just be the photos. This machine is just gonna run Ubuntu server so I can try out a bunch of other self hostable services for fun. I'll take a look into Borg though! Always appreciate any suggestions.

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