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Hello! I was wondering if running periodically a script to automatically pull new images for all my containers is a good or a bad idea. I'd run it everyday at 5.00AM to avoid interruptions. Any tips?

EDIT: Thanks to everyone for the help! I'll install Watchtower to manage the updates

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[–] SteadyGoLucky 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Some apps have breaking changes. If you can restore a complete backup when that occurs, you can recover. Immich is famous for its breaking changes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But from the moment that the script updates and breaks something and the moment he realizes it may be too late for some applications.

For example I host Traccar to track car/vans and in this case some tracks would be lost. Or maybe SyncThing, he may realize days/weeks later that a sync is not working and if he was synching his smartphone pictures with his server and the smartphone is lost/broke/stolen, he may lose days/weeks or even months of pictures.

I wouldn't trust a script. Use Watchtower or What's up Docker

@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'll surely check them out, thank you very much!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yes because immich is still not considered stable. Keep that in mind.