I recently setup a immich server on a mini PC, and can access it through cloudflare etc.
It works pretty smoothly except for files bigger than 100mb (cloudflare limitation)
I have a few questions, if you can answer some please do.
- What’s your setup like? Do you have any tips/tricks for a newbie I should know about?
- What’s your backups like? Is your data safe if your house burns down?
- Is there a cloudflare alternative I can use that will handle any file size from anywhere in the world without needing to tun on/off a vpn like tailscale?
(i would like to also set it up for my family, but for that is needs to work VERY smoothly, no needing to turn on and off VPN’s to sync)
Docker host running immich amongst other containers. Backups are done nightly to a nas device on location, the immich container has a volume mount to an external SSD.
Fire: nah, won’t survive it. Planning to fix this in the next few weeks, setting up a Nas on a remote location.
Just for support purchased the ‘“license”’, entire household moved from Google photos to immich. All using wireguard with the ‘include these applications’ option. Gave them access to jellyfin and satellite receiver too, so they are very happy to keep it up and running. No complaints, immich works great.
I am not OP but I actually have similar questions on backup because I didn’t have access to my Immich server for a few months and got really behind on keeping it updated. I want to make backups before I do a manual update, but I don’t know if following the directions on Immich’s Backup and Restore page is good enough or if I should handle it another way manually.
For backups, I have two drives that are striped and do nightly backups to idrive. I was able to find a containerized version of the console app and I have it run on a schedule from 3-7am.
I use NPM to redirect a domain name to the server with https.
As I understand and have been using it, you don’t need to turn off the tailscale connection. It’s only going to affect how any individual IP address gets routed. In this case, whatever the IP is of Immich. If a phone connected to your tailscale node (phone is anywhere in the world) wants 192.168.1.50 for example, tailscale redirects that request to the other end of the tailscale VPN which happens to be at your home instead of whatever network the phone is connected to. Any non defined IPs just go where they normally would.
VM is backed up daily to PBS then synced to an external and off-site.
All the photos are on the NAS and backed up to an external and off-site.
I use the ImageGenius container. I mount config, library and photo store to my NAS which duplicates to another NAS and pushes a copy to C2.
To access away from home I use tailscale.
