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Self-hosting my photos with Immich

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
659 points birdculture | 3 comments | 30 Nov 25 09:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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fsh ◴[06 Dec 25 08:52 UTC] No.46171746[source]▶
My biggest worry with Immich is how to future-proof the albums. With photos sorted into folders, it should be no problem to access them in a couple of decades. With Immich, I have to rely on the software still working or finding some kind of tool to dump the database.
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1. dangus ◴[06 Dec 25 13:46 UTC] No.46173331[source]▶
This is what I like about Ente. I can pay them to give me an e2e encrypted cloud service, and then the desktop app has a continuous export feature that will dump everything into a plain folder structure on my home NAS automatically.

Ente could go out of business tomorrow and I’d still have all my photos, neatly organized into folders.

And I don’t have to bother with self-hosting overhead. Or I could self host, too, if I wanted. But I still need an off-site backup so I might as well pay for the cloud service.

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2. sylens ◴[06 Dec 25 16:12 UTC] No.46174414[source]▶
Have you had any issues with the continuous export writing to a network volume? And does it work for all users in a family plan? That was my plan as well, but I’d like to only have to run one export job
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3. dangus ◴[06 Dec 25 18:16 UTC] No.46175344[source]▶
I can’t tell you about family plan since I don’t have one. I assume you’d have to set this up on a per-user basis.

I haven’t had any network volume issues. It’s an SMB volume provided by trueNAS mounted on a Windows machine.

I will say, if you mess up your volume like the time I took my NAS down for maintenance for a few days, the export failure wasn’t incredibly loud. I don’t think it notified and screamed at me that it wasn’t working. So I guess that is a significant risk.