Doing a volume like the default Immich docker-compose uses should work fine, even through restarts. I’m not sure why your setup is blowing up the volume.

Normally volumes are only removed if there is no running container associated with it, and you manually run docker volume prune

Do a one-time copy of your photos using SFTP or FolderSync or whatever works for you.

At least with ESPHome and other local-only devices they only update when you actually tell them to update.

Well one advantage is you can just use this tool instead of needing to use each website or app individually, it saves a lot of time that way.

Also might as well have one less company collecting data on you, vs using a commercial closed source social media management tool.

Could try Fedora based like Bazzite or just regular Fedora. Obviously a sample size of 2 isn’t saying much, but Bazzite is less buggy with the hardware on my HP laptop, and my destop with an Nvidia GPU.

Batch mode is great! I didn’t realize it was added until just now hah

If you changed it after installing the OS in the VM, that would be the cause.

That looks like the bootloader is broken, or the VM BIOS settings got changed after install.

Often the hotkeys on laptops for screen brightness, mute, etc will either not work or be wonky, on my HP Elitebook on Debian distros the brightness keys both mute the speakers instead, they work fine on Fedora though.

No one ever seems to discuss which hole this is happening in first lol

https://github.com/kd2org/karadav

Nextcloud client/app compatible WebDAV server with a lightweight file browser webUI, and multi-user support.

Should be the closest thing to Google Drive without actually running Nextcloud.

The only issue is it looks like the Nextcloud iOS clients don’t work.

It’s pretty easy, you can browse files in an LXC backup and restore specific parts. For VMs you can just restore the whole VM and copy out what you need.

I back up all the directories and docker-compose files using Restic (via Backrest) stored on Backblaze B2, and also the whole Docker LXC via Proxmox’s backup function to a local HDD.

There’s a chance some databases could be backed up in an unusable state, but I keep like 30-50 snapshots going back months, so I figure if the latest one has a bad DB backup, I could go back another day and try that one.

I also don’t really have irreplaceable data stored in DBs, stuff like Immich has data in a DB that would be annoying to lose, but the photos themselves are just on the filesystem.

For testing Restic I pull a backup and just go through and check some of the important files.

Proxmox backup is really easy to test, as it just restores the whole LXC with a new ID and IP that I can check.

I would just make an IG account if it’s being a large obstacle, you probably don’t have to install the app as you can do most things through the web browser.

I’ve always liked Fedora or its various derivatives like Bazzite. They seem to have defaults that make sense, and fairly up to date software.

I also find dnf on Fedora to be a bit nicer and more streamlined compared to apt, and I’ve heard it’s significantly easier to package software for dnf as well.

Yep, without a restart anything running will be the old version until the process is restarted (or the whole system is).

You’ll also probably want to do a flatpak update along with dnf upgrade

Yeah fair, most of my bookmarks aren’t really things that are important to save, just funny things I want to share later or something.

Yeah bookmarks are a lot better than using specific save systems

NP! That’s how I do it on proxmox, I’ll start the VM every so often and update it. Only takes a few seconds to clone so it’s nice and quick to do.

Simple method is just keep a ready to go VM and clone it.