Who the hell is pulling the docker-compise.yml automatically every release? I find myself already crazy by pulling the latest release but the compose file is just a disaster waiting to happen.
Complete insanity.
Then again it seems like people were using a docker volume to save all their precious photos rather than a mount point on the host. Also seems insane to me.
Could you explain a bit more about why it’s insane to have it as a docked volume instead of a mount point on the host? I’m not too well-versed with docker (or maybe hosting in general)
Edit: typo
A normal file system is something anything can access. You can open it in file browser. You can get to it via command line. You can ssh into from another computer and you can easily back it up with numerous tried and tested backup methods.
Why lock yourself into only being able to access your data via docker?
In a disaster scenario when you are trying to recover files, you will greatly appreciate being able to just see all the files super easily without anything fancy. It also means you can use any standard method to back up all those file.
Recovery is also almost as easy, copy the files back to where they were and just run the docker container.
What’s the difference? The docker volume, on my setup anyway, is in /mnt/md0/docker-data/immich_upload/_data/
It’s still a directory on the host either way? Although I guess if it’s a mount point it won’t get removed when removing volumes in docker.
I mounted that volume the first time I opened immich’s compose file, glad they changed it =)
Exactly this, my docker host has a folder for docker data. In there are sub folders for each docker app. Borg back grabs the entire docker data folder and backs it up.
If there are any issues, I can easily see all the files.
I have no idea how people trust things like docker volumes with valuable data without the ability to just see into the filesystem easily.
I’m not using immich in docker. Can you explain what this breaking is there to fix?
Didn’t know it, so from readme: Immich, a high performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
I was surprised to see the default compose file not force the user to specify an external directory for the database.
Who was pulling the dicker compose and just straight up running the GitHub version on their server. That seems crazy. Even pulling :latest tag seems crazy to me but this is another level.
This change is only breaking if you are running someone else’s docker compose on your server without looking at it.
Also who was running their entire photo album in a docker volume rather than a mount point on the host. Another insane decision. To be fair, the default docker compose never should have had that. It should have been a mount point right from the start.
I don’t run Immich specifically but all other software I run is on :latest tags and unattended-upgrades on Debian. It works so, why bother?
Mainly because of the number of things I have that I rely on every day and definitely don’t want to break until I’m ready to upgrade it and have time to fix it if it does break.
I know many do use :latest but having a service break while I’m away or travelling really sucks
