Like it's old. Old as fuck. But companies still use it.. and the devs that can do the work are dying.. literally .
Trucking company I worked for in 08 had a 5 year plan to get off ibmi.
Talked to the head of their infosec last week. They still use it and still have a 5 year plan...
Medical software company I work for is so desperate for RPG devs they are hiring back folks that retired for contract hourly rates.
The CIO recently said in an all hands that if we knew someone that could RPG dev.. brother cousin neighbor.. to send them their way and the bonus would be larger.
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Enterprise RPG (IBM i / AS/400) Software Developer
I run a rsync command that backs up the database dump and all the immich assets to a USB hdd. I do that every couple of days or when I think about it haha
I then back that USB drive up to another USB drive on my personal computer.
These drives are wd Reds and in USB enclosure.
My buddy has offered to host a off site backup but I have a toddler and as such 0 time.
I probably should look into some cold storage or something but shits expensive these days and I'm currently satisfied with where I am.
Knocks on wood
Additional context... I'm running Debian with mergerfs across like 8 drives. So my photos are spread across several drives in my /storage/photos folder.
So In oder to lose everything all at once. It would have to be a flood or house fire or something..
Literally changed the version in my env file and then deleted all docker images.
I then pulled all images and brought all containers online.
0 issues.
Immich has been running really well for us on my n100 for 10 months now.
I did dual Google photos and immich for a 3 months and then exported out from gphotos.
I started 2026 with immich only. Been rock solid the entire time.
Of course that's all anecdotal and ymmv. But immich is fantastic
Damn it.
Gotta use chrome at work.
Firefox "isn't secure and isn't supported" - my it director
No one hates star wars / Trek like star wars / Trek fans.
Learn RPG.
Like it's old. Old as fuck. But companies still use it.. and the devs that can do the work are dying.. literally .
Trucking company I worked for in 08 had a 5 year plan to get off ibmi.
Talked to the head of their infosec last week. They still use it and still have a 5 year plan...
Medical software company I work for is so desperate for RPG devs they are hiring back folks that retired for contract hourly rates.
The CIO recently said in an all hands that if we knew someone that could RPG dev.. brother cousin neighbor.. to send them their way and the bonus would be larger.
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Jfc.
One rule. No one stays dead but Uncle Ben.
Yep. My toddler hit the starlink button recently. Absolutely killed my outback.
Crazy the bull shit I had to do to start it again.
They are "cheaper" than s3 or back blaze since they outsourced the cost to taxpayers.
Haha that's fair.
You know.. I hadn't considered that or an actual successful attempt.
They could absolutely spin it and attempt to use it as the jumping off point for a forever war.
Dude.. time zones can go fuck themselves. I'm a QA and every quarter we deal with some random ass bug that rolls back to time zone issues.
I need a website like isitdns.com except isittimezone.fu
Good God has it been 11 years since that meme?
You know.. it's hilarious you say that about staying on top of your selfhosted stuff.
I learned that lesson not too long ago.. I am self-hosting ubiquitys unifi network application.
Apparently two years ago they split out the database from the app.
I had no idea until my wifi abruptly stopped working. Haha
Now I pay attention to that stuff a little more.
Lmao
Good luck getting that sorted!
Haha I had a much harder time with the compose formatting than I did with the actual upgrade.
Line
Or
Line.?
Either way fuck you compose. Haha
I'm super basic backup wise.
I run a rsync command that backs up the database dump and all the immich assets to a USB hdd. I do that every couple of days or when I think about it haha
I then back that USB drive up to another USB drive on my personal computer.
These drives are wd Reds and in USB enclosure.
My buddy has offered to host a off site backup but I have a toddler and as such 0 time.
I probably should look into some cold storage or something but shits expensive these days and I'm currently satisfied with where I am.
Knocks on wood
Additional context... I'm running Debian with mergerfs across like 8 drives. So my photos are spread across several drives in my /storage/photos folder. So In oder to lose everything all at once. It would have to be a flood or house fire or something..
Swappa.com buy used.
I just moved from v2 immich to v3.
Literally changed the version in my env file and then deleted all docker images.
I then pulled all images and brought all containers online.
0 issues.
Immich has been running really well for us on my n100 for 10 months now. I did dual Google photos and immich for a 3 months and then exported out from gphotos.
I started 2026 with immich only. Been rock solid the entire time.
Of course that's all anecdotal and ymmv. But immich is fantastic
She's the new Mr rogers or for us east Tennessee folk... Dolly Parton.
If you stand against Mrs Rachel... You're wrong.
Imho
That's my go to. The 10 year is a staple in my house. Had some barrel? Strength a while back it was great.
Everything they make is quality