You know… it’s hilarious you say that about staying on top of your selfhosted stuff.

I learned that lesson not too long ago… I am self-hosting ubiquitys unifi network application.

Apparently two years ago they split out the database from the app.

I had no idea until my wifi abruptly stopped working. Haha

Now I pay attention to that stuff a little more.

Lmao

Good luck getting that sorted!

Haha I had a much harder time with the compose formatting than I did with the actual upgrade.

Line

Or

Line.?

Either way fuck you compose. Haha

I’m super basic backup wise.

I run a rsync command that backs up the database dump and all the immich assets to a USB hdd. I do that every couple of days or when I think about it haha

I then back that USB drive up to another USB drive on my personal computer.

These drives are wd Reds and in USB enclosure.

My buddy has offered to host a off site backup but I have a toddler and as such 0 time.

I probably should look into some cold storage or something but shits expensive these days and I’m currently satisfied with where I am.

Knocks on wood

Additional context… I’m running Debian with mergerfs across like 8 drives. So my photos are spread across several drives in my /storage/photos folder. So In oder to lose everything all at once. It would have to be a flood or house fire or something…

I just moved from v2 immich to v3.

Literally changed the version in my env file and then deleted all docker images.

I then pulled all images and brought all containers online.

0 issues.

Immich has been running really well for us on my n100 for 10 months now. I did dual Google photos and immich for a 3 months and then exported out from gphotos.

I started 2026 with immich only. Been rock solid the entire time.

Of course that’s all anecdotal and ymmv. But immich is fantastic