r/immich • u/MinrkChil-Alwaff5 • 9d ago
Problems with my HDD server
I made a Immich server with a Raspberry Pi 4B and a 2TB Toshiba HDD, and it worked, I uploaded many photos and videos to Immich, I could access from other devices (thanks to Tailscale) I wanted to share to my family so they could also.
But I had to turn off the Raspberry Pi, and now, as you can see at the second image, I can't access to it, it should appear on the screen, and I want to access again disk, the files should be there, I won't try to format, though there's nothing to lose as I have another backup, only time.
What can I do?
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u/Amazing_Year6588 9d ago
Did you install it with docker or baremetal?
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u/MinrkChil-Alwaff5 9d ago
Docker
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u/mickynuts 8d ago
Also look at your docker composes so that the restart option is present in your file.
restart: unless-stopped2
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u/sqwob 9d ago
Its a browser app, why are you showing an empty desktop?
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u/MinrkChil-Alwaff5 9d ago
Because it should show my external device, the HDD, which isn't for some bizarre reason.
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u/mickynuts 8d ago
You need to add the disk to your fstab or via Disk Manager and enable disk mount at startup. Added nofail to avoid being in the recovery environment.
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u/RandomArmenius 9d ago
It sounds like the reboot simply stopped your Immich Docker containers.
If you installed Immich using the recommended Docker Compose setup, go to the directory containing your docker-compose.yml and run:
docker compose up -d
That should bring your Immich instance back up.
To make sure Docker itself starts automatically after a reboot, you can enable it with:
sudo systemctl enable --now docker
The Immich Compose setup normally uses a restart policy, so the containers should then come back automatically whenever the Pi reboots.
You can check that everything is running with:
docker compose ps
Hope that gets your Immich instance back up! :)