The question is not why to start, but when do you stop, lol

I’m working in pharmaceutical production industry and I have started selfhosting few months ago.

I wanted to replace google photos with immich, cause my photo collection approached 200gb and I didn’t want to upgrade to 2tb version. My gf also had same problem

Bought second hand mini pc for 100€ to test to see how it goes and if I had decided to go back, i would have sold it.

Initially I was following FUTO guide, but quickly noticed it was too extensive and complex for my setup. I managed to set up immich with reverse proxy, did few mistakes here and there, but when it finally worked, I got hooked. I now have:

• local backups to external drive (borg-web-ui docker)
• ntfy. To send noticiation to my phone after backup had finished
• diun. To notify when docker update is available
• dockgee. docker management
• tailscale. Remote access

All of it comes gradually, I’m tinkering with home assistant vm now.

im not sure, but maybe when you specify path, docker thinks theres two paths separated by :, also in linux to specify path you use forward slash /, so maybe puting in quote maarks would work, e.g. "D:\Pictures":/pictures/ and then looking for /pictures/ inside the container

You shohld also try checking logs when adding external library on immich with docker logs --follow immich_server

I started selfhosting month ago. I’ve came across Borg Web Ui. Its borg, but wrapped in nice web ui. I managed to setup daily local backups to external drive without struggling in the CLI. Borg web ui provides more dumbed down documentation (which is good for me). I’ve also setup to send notification to my phone when the backup is successful. I used NTFY for that