• ikidd@lemmy.world
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          20 days ago

          Check release notes before you upgrade and see what it’s going to break. Immich introduces breaking changes quite often at this point.

        • Terry@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          19 days ago

          As in "While the photos are still in your storage, the DB is gone for good and a manual reimport from the existing files is not possible, so you have three options:

          • Restoring the DB from a working backup
          • Reinstalling and reuploading the data
          • Reinstalling and importing the existing data as external libraries - which will lead to duplicates in your users galleries as soon as their devices sync themselves with Immich"

          Honestly, you really don’t want options 2 and 3. Just make sure you’ve got good backups of everything. My DB is backed up daily and I keep periodic backups for up to three years just to be sure.