Self-hosting my photos with Immich
Self-hosting my photos with Immich published 2025-11-29 Table of contents For every cloud service I use, I want to have a local copy of my data for backup purposes and independence. Unfortunately, the gphotos-sync tool stopped working in March 2025 when Google restricted the OAuth scopes, so I needed an alternative for my existing Google Photos setup. In this post, I describe how I have set up Immich, a self-hostable photo manager. Here is the end result: a few (live) photos from NixCon 2025: Step 1. Hardware I am running Immich on my Ryzen 7 Mini PC (ASRock DeskMini X600), which consumes less than 10 W of power in idle and has plenty of resources for VMs (64 GB RAM, 1 TB disk). You can read more about it in my blog post from July 2024: Ryzen 7 Mini-PC makes a power-efficient…
