I have recently repurposed and old Hp Stream to a home server and successfully run Immich. I really like it and even a small 500GB disk is way more than the 15GB Google offers.
My issue though is about backup. I would only be comfortable if all the data is backed up in an off-site server (cloud). But the back up storage will probably cost as much as paying for a service like ente or similar, directly replacing Google photo.
What am I missing? Where do you store your backup?
Please! That sounds like a slick setup.
I followed the guide found here, however with a few modifications.
Notably, I did not encrypt the borg repository, and heavily modified the backup script.
Most of my services are stored on individual LVM volumes, all mounted under
/mnt
, so immich is completely self-contained under/mnt/photos/immich/
. The last line of my script sends a notification to my phone using ntfy.