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Just gonna leave this here: https://immich.app/
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2026
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Use it and love it but man is it convenient having an offsite backup even if it destroys the quality of videos with compression. Too bad immich is not an offsite service as well as running at home.
I make a backup to an otherwise unmounted hdd which is on occasion swapped with an identical hdd stored at my close relatives.
I just set up a cloud backup and automated daily syncs.
You can always backup your immich library with encryption with restic to a backblaze bucket which can be automated.
I personally use Ente. https://ente.io/
I believe Immich has more features, bunch of more AI stuff if that tickles your goat, and I think the image editing is a bit more advanced. Ente has e2ee, and while you can self-host it, they also have a (in my opinion) reasonably priced subscription.
My main purpose for this kind of software isn't editing or sharing (though Ente has great sharing features too), but rather off-site backups.
Immich is pretty basic in terms of editing. Everything else is simply amazing. I have it on my fairly new homeserver and i plan on backing that up to a simple storage box from hetzner or something similar.
I guess ente is solid too though!
We're spoiled for options, and I love it! :)
immich is phenomenal
It's really nice and comes built in with it's own image recognition AI that runs locally and is fully private. It's also better at recognizing pics than Google's
I've been wanting to give this a shot, but I'm not sure if I just need an Nginx reverse proxy sitting in front to expose it to the Internet? I don't really want to have to vpn into my home lab every time I want to upload/view photos.
You can do that but you're risking your entire photo library being on the clearweb if a 0 day exploit is found.
Yeah, that is a risk, but it's a pretty reasonable one to take. VPN is good but certainly not ideal for some self hosted services.
If Immich, or Jellyfin, have all 0 day exploit that allows remote access to the network, a lot of folks will be freaking out, including me.
i can't read the article with all this freedom self hosted immich brings ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
That's not really genAI, is it? More like a classifier.