From e2e15009e28f27a919aef368836c817af440235b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alvis <alvis@logins.net>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2026 18:28:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add Immich backup script

Daily backup at 02:30 via root cron: DB dump + rsync of library/upload/profile
to /mnt/backups/media/. Retains 14 days of DB dumps. Monitored via Zabbix
immich.backup.age item with High trigger if stale >25h.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 immich-app/backup.sh | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 immich-app/backup.sh

diff --git a/immich-app/backup.sh b/immich-app/backup.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0de2a41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/immich-app/backup.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+BACKUP_DIR=/mnt/backups/media
+DB_BACKUP_DIR="$BACKUP_DIR/backups"
+LOG="$BACKUP_DIR/backup.log"
+RETAIN_DAYS=14
+
+mkdir -p "$DB_BACKUP_DIR"
+
+echo "[$(date)] Starting Immich backup" >> "$LOG"
+
+# 1. Database dump (must come before file sync)
+DUMP_FILE="$DB_BACKUP_DIR/immich-db-$(date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S).sql.gz"
+docker exec immich_postgres pg_dump --clean --if-exists \
+  --dbname=immich --username=postgres | gzip > "$DUMP_FILE"
+echo "[$(date)] DB dump: $DUMP_FILE" >> "$LOG"
+
+# 2. Rsync critical asset folders (skip thumbs and encoded-video — regeneratable)
+for DIR in library upload profile; do
+  rsync -a --delete /mnt/media/upload/$DIR/ "$BACKUP_DIR/$DIR/" >> "$LOG" 2>&1
+  echo "[$(date)] Synced $DIR" >> "$LOG"
+done
+
+# 3. Remove old DB dumps
+find "$DB_BACKUP_DIR" -name "immich-db-*.sql.gz" -mtime +$RETAIN_DAYS -delete
+echo "[$(date)] Cleaned dumps older than ${RETAIN_DAYS}d" >> "$LOG"
+
+touch "$BACKUP_DIR/.last_sync"
+echo "[$(date)] Immich backup complete" >> "$LOG"