One of the first things I spun up after getting settled in my new environment was Immich to handle local photo backups. Setting it up with Docker Compose is usually straightforward in theory, but getting the volume permissions and storage paths aligned with my existing backup drives took a little extra tweaking.
When you are managing multiple containers for the database, the machine learning features, and the web application, one wrong path or permission error can cause the whole stack to refuse to start. I spent quite a while digging through configuration files and logs to make sure my photos were actually saving to the right physical disks. Once everything clicked into place and the timeline finally started populating, having a fast, self-hosted photo library running locally made all the setup headaches completely worth it.
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