nice! for anyone with postgres in the mix, what bit me wasn’t the backup itself but the disk. a table in my side project kept one snapshot per minute and never deleted any, the disk hit 100% and postgres went down with a PANIC for like 40 min. now the nightly pg_dump writes to a .tmp, checks it with gzip -t and only then replaces the old file, and the app warns me if the newest dump is older than 26h or suspiciously small. restoring is just loading it into an empty db and starting the app, boring but it’s the part you actually want to know works

one or two services first is the right call, the scope creep is real lol. good luck with the move, and do a full restore of the photos while the box is still at home, that’s the one thing you really don’t want to debug remotely

Plan sounds fine to me, debian + immich in docker + tailscale is pretty much the boring setup and boring is good for a box in a shed. one thing I’d do before carrying it out there, install tailscale and ssh, reboot it a couple of times and make sure it comes back on its own without a screen, because walking to the shed with a monitor gets old fast. also something like uptime kuma on another machine (or your NAS) pinging it, so you know it’s down before you’re on holiday and the photos stop uploading. I run a box at home I only reach over tailscale and that’s the part that saved me most.