I think it is.
Why is that?
They are also pretty clear on the immich website on how to backup the database itself
Yeah I’m pretty tired of hearing things are “pretty clear” or “not that complicated” and then being directed to an absolute word salad of technical terms no one without a computer science degree would understand.
No, just an “export” wouldn’t be good enough since the files themselves do not include the metadata.
They could…add them?
If they implemented a proper backup system I wouldn’t have to worry about it breaking. That’s why I want it.
There’s nothing else I need to access the backend for.
Once again, not what I asked for. If you don’t have anything helpful to contribute, please feel free to stop replying to me.
I did not ask for magic. I asked for a button to export my data. Unless you consider that to be magical?
if I did even the barest amount of effort to learn it on my own that I could find all the information
I’m sure you could. And I’m sure I could. The problem is knowing what to do with that information. As it is, it might as well all be fucking hieroglyphics to me. I don’t understand it.
You seem to be unable to comprehend that everyone is not a sysadmin. I do, however, know how to click buttons in a UI.
I’m not looking to become a sysadmin, thanks. I just want somewhere to safely store and organize my private photos.
I don’t know how to access the filesystem and copying the library folders would not back up the metadata.
A great backup solution would be what I mentioned elsewhere. Just put a button to export it to a flash drive or an encrypted file server.
I have no idea where that data is. Immich does.
Telling me to Google it is unhelpful and rude and further backs up my point that it is more complicated. If there is a button, I don’t need to research anything, I just click it.
Are you paying for Immich somewhere?
No.
by managed services I meant like Google Photos
Not doing that for reasons that shouldn’t need explaining.
I don’t understand how that’s helpful. If something is corrupted or my house burns down, a local backup is going to go with it. That’s why I asked for external backups.
You should have a backup solution for your server that should cover this
Thats…why I’m asking?
managed photo backup services
…is that not what Immich is?
Choose your source and destination, run rclone. That’s it.
This tells me absolutely nothing about how to do that. Source for what? Destination for what? Choose them where? What is rclone? Where do I get it? How do I run it? What does it do?
All questions that don’t need to be answered before clicking a button in the UI.
E: That was very much not it, and they asked me to Google the rest of it.
Reading the comment I replied to, it appears to be much much more complicated. And I don’t understand how anyone can claim otherwise.
There’s no way to do that for your entire library. Also I assume that would not retain the Immich-specific metadata like the ML object tags and the “people” tagged in the photos.
Yeah, I don’t know what any of these words mean. I just want to click “export” and back all the data up to a flash drive. Is that too much to ask?
Yeah I just didn’t understand it.
How did you do external backups?
I obviously have “some technical knowledge” as I was able to launch a server and install Immich. I just don’t understand why everyone seems entirely opposed to making things easier.