One of the best pieces of self-hosted software ever to exist.

Edit: This is Immich! for the folks who don’t know.

  • morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.socialEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I got the supporter for free, because I donated to them before they joined FUTO. I donate frequently to opensource projects. This is a good way to say thanks to the devs 😊

    Even small donations are fine, so please donate to projects you enjoy 👍🏻

  • kalpol@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Seriously everyone pushes Immich so hard I’m a little suspicious of it now :D

    Edit: all right, all right, I installed it. It has a thing about not uploading all the pictures I give it, some error out. I have a feeling it is due to the library being on a NAS share.

    • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
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      13 days ago

      The fediverse is small and the Immich dev is one of our own, not surprising that it’s super popular

        • smoker@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          13 days ago

          They are indicative of something. That something is just not always “this project is good”.

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Correct: it’s like trying to equate “correct” with “popular”, and keeping in mind how the last US elections have turned out.

          But it’s good to be in a big network of other users with the same product, nonetheless.

          • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            13 days ago

            You can just buy them, same way you can buy likes on any other platform. Don’t use them as any kind of metric.

    • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      It’s crazy good for something FREE. Like infinitely better than any major crop google apple etc because you KEEP your photos. Anything you upload to the cloud is being mined by them.

      The only thing I tell people is that you need a cloud backup.

      I have an automated nightly worker that zips all my photos encrypts them with a 32 character password and then uploads it to a bulk storage facility.

      • fragrantvegetable@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        13 days ago

        I do something similar using restic to encrypt, deduplicate, and backup my photos to backblaze every now and then. Out of curiosity, any particular reason you choose zip over something like restic?

    • sonofearth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Immich: Image Backup* solution — like Google Photos or Ente Photos but self-hosted.

      *Backup in the sense of uploading your photos to a server you own. You should backup the database as well as your library with 3-2-1 method.

            • kossa@feddit.orgEnglish
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              13 days ago

              You put them in a safe. Safe falls down, spinning is gone.

              You put them in a safe and forget about them for some time. Flash is gone, spinning still has data.

        • sonofearth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          14 days ago

          • Short: It is a second Hardrive using borg that backs up the primary Hardrive.

          • Long: My Backup strategy:-

          Databases and other imp files:

          For databases the backup happens every night that gets saved on the server itself. Then when my laptop connects either to the home network or to the Internet, the backup zip files on my server syncs to my laptop via syncthing. Then my laptop’s data is backed up to OneDrive (encrypted) — this includes the immich database backups. I usually keep 7 days worth of backup files just incase some get corrupted and I can just go back to the previous day.

          Library

          Since my Immich Library is big, daily borg backups are not possible for 200 gigs. So I have scheduled them every Sunday morning when I rarely use the server. The hardrive is exclusively used only for Immich. That hardrive is then backed up to another hardrive using borg and also to my OneDrive using rclone. (All encrypted). So 3 copies of the data, 2 on 2 different hardives (1 is primary) and 1 offsite.

  • ShadowZone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Hmm. While I applaud Immich for existing at all, it kind of feels developed with not me as a user in mind. I have Terabytes of pictures I have taken over the couple of decades of my adult life. They are all neatly organized in folders on my NAS. There is no easy way to just tell Immich “oy, that folder structure? Turn it into albums” I am never going to manually put my 400k+ images into albums. And the folder view in the Android app is behind too many clicks to make it any fun using it.

    I guess I have to wrangle with the CLI or something to turn my folders into albums.

    But… why??? People use existing file structures. Make it easy for those to integrate into your app.

    Nothing of the sort on the roadmap either. Unless integrating folder structures into Immich albums gets more user friendly, I am reluctant to support the devs.

    I’ll probably do it anyway because as I said, I’m glad the project exists.

    Thanks.