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immich update has breaking changes (github.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

I haven't reviewed the changelog for this immich, but yes a breaking change typically means if you just went and updated you would have a broken system. sometimes something like you mentioned if a backend database is changed or db column attributes altered.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This scares me to an extent but as long as immich provides some instructions on what to do to get back on track, this should be okay.

    Also, what happens if one skips multiple such breaking updates? Will it be my responsibility to hunt down the changes and make corresponding amends?

    And finally, while I understand that immich is not supposed to be photo backup solution, does it allow export and import of metadata, tags etc? I ask because I intend to set it up and I may skip few of these updates and instead do a fresh install a year or so later. If I can simply export my settings, face ID info, albums from old setup and import it into the new one then it makes things very easy.

    Otherwise the phrase breaking changes does sound really scary.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Yep

    Yes

    That part I haven't read up on

    Breaking changes are scary for running solutions. it is why IT has a mandate of "Never touch a running system" (security patches only)

    Immich is a younger, quickly evolving project, so new features or improvements may justify breaking the upgrade path. There may be folks that share data migration tips when that happens. It is why in corporate world we never want to be on the latest version of something; let the non critical data users find the problems.

    Also you may have seen this on the project page. Basically use at own risk until things mature:

    ⚠️ The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    As an example in an engineering software it had been forward compatible for 30 years, recently they changed the datatypes for certain expressions: some expressions that could be number type now were restricted to integer. This broke every formula built off of that expression type in legacy data. ugg

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