EU photo solution | Immich on Hetzner (blog.sivak.eu)

submitted 2 weeks ago by MikeGrey@lemmy.ml to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

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My path to EU hosted Immich instance on Hetzner servers (Germany + Finland)

In the post you can find:

Why Immich
Why Hetzner
Repository with examples
Backup strategy
Cost comparison

Hope you will enjoy this post

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[-] kaosterra@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Why did you choose a volume to store photos instead of the storage box? I have a similar set up but I mount the storage box with CIFS and use it as the main media storage. I have not noticed any latency issues so far.

[-] MikeGrey@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Mainly because I wanted to use Storage Box as a backup, with it being the main data storage, I would need to figure out backup solution

Plus I was afraid of latency, glad to hear that it is not a problem - maybe in the future I can try to use it as you are now, thanks

[-] kossa@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

Teach me your magic. Even when trying to mount from a Hetzner VPS my storage box always unmounts, no matter if cifs or sshfs. And then, when the VPS tries to automount again, for some reason the IP gets blocked for some time 😮‍💨

[-] kaosterra@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

I followed Hetzner's docs on how to mount it with a small twist.

The docs say to edit /etc/fstab to add some automount config using charset=utf8 but the VPS OS did not include the utf8 charset module by default (Ubuntu used to to bundle it but now it doesn't). So had to run:

# Install additional packages
sudo apt install linux-modules-extra-$(uname -r)

# Make OS load nls_utf8 module on boot
sudo echo "nls_utf8" >> /etc/modules-load.d/cifs.conf

There was a way to load the module without reboot but can't remember. Once I did that, I followed Hetzner's docs and that was it.

[-] kaosterra@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

and I just found out that running sudo apt full-upgrade may update your kernel which means you have to do the module setup again for the new kernel

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