immich VS restic

I think Immich checks a lot of these

https://immich.app/

Install Immich using the casaos app store or by following the instructions on the Immich GitHub repository.

thanks. It started as a proof of concept for a custom reactivity engine (based on signals and tagged template literals). But while at it I realised I needed something quick and easy for my needs.

I already have a prototype for a self-hosted photogallery that integrates this editor (something like https://immich.app to give you an idea). But it's still to early to share

Immich - Self-hosted photo backup solution

However, managing apps with Flux in my opinion is not the easiest and most comfortable solution. Especially, if we're changing versions quite often and we would like to have at least a few dependencies between apps and infra. For example, my Immich instance needs csi-driver-smb, which on the other hand requires external-secret-operator and external-secret-secret (the actual link between in-cluster secret and ESO ClusterSecretStore). So, every new relese, needs to be built and checks that all kustomizations are in place. Then actually deploy a new version. Very long process, also ArgoCD UI is just better, easier to use, and definitely more user-friendly - at least in my opinion.

interesting why nobody mentioned https://immich.app/ yet?

I highly suggest Immich [1], it's an open-source and self-host alternative for Google Photos. It's still under very active development, but I think it's the best out there.

[1] https://immich.app/

I really like https://immich.app/

Has auto backup on the mobile apps, great webUI, multi user, face recognition and search all done locally.

Then for local and cloud backup you can use your preferred software like Restic or whatever you like.

Used to be restic[1], but I switched to kopia[2]. For Android I just sync /storage/emulated/0/ with syncthing. All devices are backed up to a home server. Home server backups go to Backblaze (but any S3-compatible storage would do).

1. https://restic.net/

For anyone looking to migrate off borg because of this, append-only is available in restic, but only with the rest-server backend:

https://github.com/restic/restic

https://github.com/restic/rest-server

which has to be started with --append-only. I use this systemd unit:

  [Unit]

Run restic to backup an entire filesystem or a subset of it, and upload to a remote S3-compatible storage.

Restic is my personal favorite for straightforward file backups. It's simple and well-designed, integrates with rclone meaning it supports any cloud storage service you can imagine, and has a decently large community surrounding it.

https://restic.net/

https://github.com/rubiojr/awesome-restic

Let me show you how I back up my computers with restic and rclone using simple systemd configuration.

Afaik not yet, there was some discussion here: https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/804

For me, these traits made restic initially attractive:

- encrypted, chunk-deduped, snapshotted backups

- single Go binary, so I could even backup the binary used to create my backups

- reasonable versioning and release scheme

- I could read, and understand, its design document: https://github.com/restic/restic/blob/master/doc/design.rst

I then just tried using it for a year and never hit any issues with it, so kept going, and now it's 6+ years later.