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?

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    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?

    • xorollo@leminal.spaceOP
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      14 hours ago

      VPN issue – my phone runs VPN regardless of whether I am at home or not, so I would still need to be able to route synchthing outside of the VPN traffic to be recognized as being at home?

      I don’t need much space for pictures. I’m at 30 GB I believe. But outside of pictures I could also backup other data and maybe get to around 100 gb.

      I’m going to guess that cronjobs allow you to schedule batch scripts to run at certain times of the day. So, as an example, you could rsync copy your library to another location in an automated way.

      I’m willing to accept some risk of loss to get off Google, but would like to minimize the risk within my means (not much means). I’m not concerned about theft, nor fire. If I want to avoid hardware failure, I need to purchase an external storage space and back the data up there. I think with the quantity of data I have, I could spend $80-$100 USD for a SSD, and be well covered space wise.

      Thoughts? And let me know if I interpreted anything you said wrong. I do computer stuff, but have always had to trust others for this part of things.