Install Immich on external Drive

  1. question

After i tried to update the installed Immich Version to the latest, the hole System gut stuck and I had to install everything from scratch. I set Immich to have the Pictures stored at the external SSD even so I noticed the quiet some Data are stored on the Host SSD. I was not abel to install everything on the external drive. I allwas ended up with a unhealthy Container.

I changed the following settings to get the pictures saved at the external SSD

the SSD are monted at /mnt/external/SanDisk

Immich Database
Variable
EXTERNAL_PATH = /usr/src/app/extern

Immich Server
Host
/mnt/extern/SanDisk/Immich /usr/src/app/uppload
Variable
EXTERNAL_PATH = /mnt/extern/SanDisk

with this settings it works, however there are still some Data at the internal Drive.
I tried to change the stetting from /DATA/AppData/big-bear-immich/pgdata to /mnt/extern/SanDisk/Immich but it didn’t work-
Is it possible to install everything on the external drive since this is a rather small one (64GB)?

  1. Question

I do have a backup from the previus Immich Installation with all the picturs in “library” and “upload”. Is it possible to copy this foldes to the new installation so a can used it there?