immich question
immich question
Looking to switch my photos over to immich hosted on my PC. I want to be able to:
- send photos from my phone to PC
- delete them off of my phone and have them safe on my PC
- I don't need to do this all the time, so I figured immich on my local network is fine. Then I don't have to figure out wireguard.
However, right now I have free VPN on my phone. I can't access immich, but I suppose this is why. I also believe that if I have VPN features that allow me to select which apps use VPN and which do not, I could route immich to ignore the VPN, and I would be able to see it on my local network.
Am I on the right track?
Sure this works. But it isn't a useful backup strategy to just put them down from phone to another device. Who guarantee the laptop doesn't got lost, destroyed or stolen?
It's just a way to get some space on your phone. And immich could do more than this. I would recommend syncthing for your usecase.
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does synchthing have the same VPN issue? I was separately planning to do synchthing to backup my RSS lists, podcast subs, and some other smaller things.
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I wasn't considering this as part of my backup strategy. I hadn't gotten that far yet, but one of the tutorials I was looking at mentioned backup strategy as the next step. I'd love to hear your recommendations on this. Backups is obviously the big thing I'm loosing moving off of photos.
3-2-1, I never lost a picture in the last decade because I use a cloud storage out of my home as the last resort. Since immich runs on docker. I simply have a cronjob running every night backup the docker volumes to cloud and local backup.
My storage isn't that big. Actually immich has 300GB. This is easy to manage. Some people definitely have more and need more space.
I really had a data loss 5 years ago. The cloud provider burnt down, even their backups. But this wasn't a problem because of my local backup (which I thought would be the first I lost).
PS. Idk what do you mean with VPN issue. I wouldn't connect to syncthing outside of my home. Is there a need for it?
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You VPN may have an option under settings called Split-Tunneling - Most well-established VPN providers will have this. This allows you to set the local subnet for your network, and it'll bypass the VPNs so that local connections are local. Check it out. Otherwise, what you propose works, yes, as long as you're okay with having that laptop as a single point of failure for your content. At least get an external drive and periodically backup to it as well, and have that drive elsewhere. Good enough starting point.
Thanks!
Yes! split-tunneling was the term I was looking for.
Good-enough is exactly what I'm going for, lol. I will get an SSD for backup.