Immich picture backup pi4

[chiptuner]

I was going to suggest installing the File Browser app but it looks like immich is set to store your image data at umbrel/app-data/immich/data/upload/ so the file-browser app can’t access it.

Are you looking for a one-time backup or regular solution?

One Time solution

You will need to access the terminal in this case, and clone the entire data directory, which will include all the database and cache files you’d need to get immich back up and running again. I don’t have experience using immich so I don’t know if all of your images are stored under the upload/ directory.

If you have enough disk space, you should be able to run

cd umbrel/app-data/immich
tar -czf immich-backup.tgz data/

You can then move the archive to another machine, or disk etc, then delete the archive to save space.

Option others have found for a more permanent backup

How can I backup my umbrel node?

Oh, I forgot about the Home… so then my first point is not valid here of course. And I fully understand your frustration then! I see we might need to just wait or make a full-disk images or in the vase of virtual machines doing image snapshots once in a while. The first option might also be possible on the home, whether you can have physical access to the drive or not. But especially with the Pi5 it should be really easy to do, since it can now also boot from a usb or nvme drive.