Ohboy. Tonight I:
- installed a cool docker monitoring app called dockge
- started moving docker compose files from random other folders into one centralized place (/opt/dockers if that matters)
- got to immich, brought the container down
- moved the docker-compose.yml into my new folder
- docker compose up -d
- saw errors saying it didn’t have a DB name to work with, so it created a new database
panik
- docker compose down
- copy old .env file from the old directory into the new folder!
- hold breath
- docker compose up -d
Welcome to Immich! Let’s get started…
Awwwwww, crud.
Anything I can do at this point?
No immich DB backup but I do have the images themselves.
EDIT: Thanks to u/atzanteol I figured out that changing the folder name caused this too. I changed the docker folder’s name back to the original name and got my DB back! yay
Docker compose has a default “feature” of prefixing the names of things it creates with the name of the directory the yml is in. It could be that the name of your volume changed as a result of you moving the yml to a new folder. The old one should still be there.
docker volume ls
Hmmm…
docker volume ls
DRIVER VOLUME NAME
local 1da54fed5d479f5a551aaf853999fcc3db659193df2643a2bf20470f4da06bee
local (a bunch more like the above)
...
local immich-app_model-cache
local immich-app_pgdata
local immich-app_tsdata
local immich_model-cache
local immich_pgdata
I’m not sure how to tell what the many volumes with names like guids could be from. (I have like 12 docker apps running here)
My docker compose yml file also has:
database:
container_name: immich_postgres
image: tensorchord/pgvecto-rs:pg14-v0.2.0
env_file:
- .env
environment:
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USERNAME}
POSTGRES_DB: ${DB_DATABASE_NAME}
volumes:
- pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
I think my problem is that I didn’t have the proper .env file the first time I started it up after moving the yml file, and that’s why immich thought it neded to create a new database from scratch. Does that make sense? I think it’s realy overwritten those
Is it not in the immich_pgdata or immich-app_pgdata folder?
The volumes themselves should be stored at /var/lib/docker/volumes
For future reference, doing operations like this without backing up first is insane.
Get borgmatic installed to take automatic backups and send them to a backup like another server or borgbase.
OMG! Yes!!!
I thought it would be good to make the folder name shorter when I moved it, so it went from immich-app before, to immich.
I just now brought it down, renamed the folder, brought it back up and my DB is back again!
Thank you so much. <3
I weill check out borgmatic too. Cheers,
Was your old setup using docker volumes? Your old database could be in one
If you want to change the name of the directory without breaking your volumes (or running services, etc), you can specify the name of the project inside the compose file
Glad to see you solved the issue, I just want to point out that this might happen again if you forget your db is in a volume controlled by docker, better to put it in a folder you know.
Last month immich released an update to the compose file for this, you need to manually change some part.
Here’s the post in this community https://lemmy.ml/post/14671585
Also I’ll include you this link in the same post, I moved the data from the docker volume to my specific one without issue.
https://lemmy.pe1uca.dev/comment/2546192
Or maybe another option is to make backups of the db. I saw this project some time ago, haven’t implemented it on my services, but it looks interesting.
https://github.com/prodrigestivill/docker-postgres-backup-local
