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I've been eyeing immich for a few years now, but I haven't committed due to concerns about how to handle backups. What is your approach?
They seem to have good builtin support. Let immich make a db backup and then add the db backup directory to your normal backup.
(And the filesystem directory with photos of course) https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/
My approach is running it in a container (podman, but if you use docker it's the same) and simply backing up the mounted folders.
Thus way I can just move everything elsewhere and just restart the container.
I mount a filesystem from a nas which is backed up to S3 with my other data.