#Merge two servers / installs

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solemn elbow
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Hi folks, I have a personal Immich install that runs on a home server, and a little over a year ago I also set up another Immich server for my partner, who wanted to get into self-hosting. It seems that the time has come for the joining of our houses, so I need to start thinking about how to bring their server stuff into mine. I have physical access to both, so moving files won't be an issue, but what I am really after is preserving all additional metadata created on their server after a year and some change of heavy use: organized faces, hand-placed location data for hundreds of photos, albums, etc. The goal is to end up with a single Immich server that contains two accounts, one for me and one for my partner, the latter being a copy of their account on another machine. Is there a known standard procedure for something like this? Thanks in advance!

torn lichenBOT
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torn lichenBOT
sacred frost
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There is no "procedure" for combining instances. You are going to be on your own probably exporting a lot of table data and importing it into the other database. This won't be an easy task by any means

hexed temple
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the location edits should be in XMP sidecars.
Albums, you can get the list of album asset IDs, get the checksums, then use those same checksums to get a list of the new IDs when re imported and apply new albums
faces ... i would be extremely impressed if you can get that sorted

solemn elbow
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Hmm does sound like a huge headache. But moving a whole install from one piece of hardware to another should be straightforward to accomplish, correct? I am tempted to take the easy way out and replace my whole install with theirs, then manually add my stuff back in on a second account as my database is far less involved and contains almost no manual edits, far easier to recreate

hexed temple
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albums might be easier if you use the storage template then re upload assets into new albums once the full import is complete, I think they will be marked as duplicate but still get added to album

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moving the install is easy

torn lichenBOT
solemn elbow
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thanks so much guys, I'll just move it then!

hexed temple
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Here's how it could work if anyone is curious in the future:
select albums."albumName", encode(checksum,'hex') as sha1 from assets join albums_assets_assets on assets.id = albums_assets_assets."assetsId" join albums on albums_assets_assets."albumsId" = albums.id limit 100;