Synology Photos → Immich Migration Runbook
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Personal runbook for migrating a family photo library from Synology Photos to a self-hosted Immich instance. Covers bulk upload, Google Takeout import, and album reconstruction via the Synology PostgreSQL database.
Setup # Source: Synology NAS running Synology Photos (multiple users) Destination: Immich self-hosted on the same NAS Upload tool: immich-go v0.31+ Client: WSL2 on Windows, SSH access to NAS Album script: custom Python (migrate_albums.py) using Immich REST API Phase 1: Photo Uploads # Strategy # Two sources per user: