immich-backup

This bash script is designed to be used as part of the Duplicati event hooks. It ensures that immich_server, immich_postgres, immich_redis and immich_machine_learning are safely stopped before and restarted after backup and restore operations.

Prerequisites

• Docker

• Immich

• Duplicati

  Add these to the Duplicati docker compose file.

    environment:
      # Let duplicati run as root
      - PUID=0
      - PGID=0
    volumes:
      # Duplicati needs to be able to access docker.sock to be able to start/stop containers.
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - /usr/bin/docker:/usr/bin/docker

Installation

1. Download the shell script

  wget -O immich.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DLmass/immich-backup/main/immich.sh

2. Make the shell script executable

  sudo chmod +x immich.sh

3. Move the shell script into your duplicati folder of your installation

  sudo mv immich.sh /path/to/duplicati/config

Usage

Add these to your backup job configuration, can be either CLI or GUI

  --run-script-before-required=/config/immich.sh
  --run-script-after=/config/immich.sh