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Just make sure you back things up. It’s likely some update will break things.
Break how? As in the photos aren’t organized, or we just nuked your entire library?
Check release notes before you upgrade and see what it’s going to break. Immich introduces breaking changes quite often at this point.
As in "While the photos are still in your storage, the DB is gone for good and a manual reimport from the existing files is not possible, so you have three options:
- Restoring the DB from a working backup
- Reinstalling and reuploading the data
- Reinstalling and importing the existing data as external libraries - which will lead to duplicates in your users galleries as soon as their devices sync themselves with Immich"
Honestly, you really don’t want options 2 and 3. Just make sure you’ve got good backups of everything. My DB is backed up daily and I keep periodic backups for up to three years just to be sure.
Can’t wait for the stable release next year.
Why? No breaking changes or something else in particular?
Mainly no breaking changes. In the past I had to manually fix it on my server a few times.
Yeah, I’m waiting for the same thing. Have you tried Ente ? It looks like more mature but with less features, is that right?
I didn’t know about it before you told me. It looks nice but I haven’t tried it yet so I don’t have an opinion on it.
I’m confused. This says it’s version 1.122 - are they going to reset to 1.0?
I meant the first stabile release, my bad.
Is there support for HDR photos though? Last time I checked there wasn’t, is it time to switch?
I’m thinking about self hosting my photo library, do I have to keep it up-to-date constantly to keep compatibility with the android app?
Just don’t let it go too stale, I recommend updating it a few days or a week after a release gets made, since sometimes there are patches for important stuff released the next day or so after a minor one. That being said what I do is I have an RSS feed for their releases so I get a notification when a new release has been made and can check the changelog for important information, most of the times it’s just bumping the version on the .env file.
Could I automate the upgrades?
With good backups, rollbacks in case of issues should be trivial.
You can, just put latest as the version. That’s what I do for most other stuff. HOWEVER immich sometimes has breaking changes, so doing this is dangerous, I’ve broken my install twice because of it, and decided to switch to manual version and check the changelog, it’s less work than using latest and fixing when things break.
There has been about 3 times where auto updating has broken immich for me. But I just go read the docs and there has always been notes on what you need to do to get it working again. 5 mins later its back up and running.
Does it work with Synology NAS? Last time I checked it didn’t. I’d love to use it.
