I am trying to finally move from entirely depending on Google Photos to a proper backup strategy. I have my photos and videos downloaded from Google which are a mess right now but as long they’re with me I am fine, at least for now....
To be fair though, those warnings are not really representative of the current user experience. I’ve had Immich running for about 6 months by now, and apart from the very frequent updates the only annoyance was when they recently changed their database scheme, and I had to manually add two extensions to my Postgres. Everything else has been rock solid, and has been improving at a massive pace
I’d recommend I’m mich instead of Photoprism, at least for this usecase. I have both running, but I use Photoprism primarily to organize and share pictures taken with my SLR, while Immich handles Automatic Backups and sorting of all the pictures I take with my phone. Additionally Immich has way better (and still offline) facial detection, it’s almost scary how good it is sometimes
Currently I’ve got a RPi4 without Coral, running Frigate with 2 cams, HA, Paperless, Photoview and Qbittorrent. This works well but maxes out the RPi4. As I want to add Immich and more cams, I have to upgrade. Budget allows for either a USB Coral with the existing RPi4 or buy a secondhand HP Prodesk 600 g4 with Intel 8th gen....
I’d also highly recommend the proper PC, Immich can get pretty RAM-hungry if you use the ML functions, for me that has actually caused crashes before. Granted, that was while importing roughly 20k Assets (200GB) from a Google photos takeout, but it’s still probably better to be prepared.
How do you manage your photos and videos?
I am trying to finally move from entirely depending on Google Photos to a proper backup strategy. I have my photos and videos downloaded from Google which are a mess right now but as long they’re with me I am fine, at least for now....
found a confusing bolt cleaning my parents' garage (lemmy.world)
Running immich, HA and Frigate on a RPi4 with Coral or on a HP Prodesk 700 g4 (Intel 8th gen)
Currently I’ve got a RPi4 without Coral, running Frigate with 2 cams, HA, Paperless, Photoview and Qbittorrent. This works well but maxes out the RPi4. As I want to add Immich and more cams, I have to upgrade. Budget allows for either a USB Coral with the existing RPi4 or buy a secondhand HP Prodesk 600 g4 with Intel 8th gen....