New Immich server

Trying baby steps on my new home lab, a new Immich server. The Windows based one broke because I installed on a dirty uninstall. To make things fun, I poked around too much under the hood, and it broke.

A quick discussion with ChatGPT, it recommends putting it on /mnt folder for easy future expansion.

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/immich-library
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /mnt/immich-library

To keep the docker compose and environment file, create a folder in the home drive and download from Immich.

wget -O docker-compose.yml \
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml

wget -O .env \
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/example.env

in the .env file, point the upload directory and it is done.

UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/passport/immich-library

Fire up a browser point to the Immich port and start loading my media with immich-go. I noticed that I have barely loaded a quarter of Google Takeout and the storage is half full. I will cover this in another post.

The machine learning docker can use some GPU help. I covered that here.