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I just wanted to back up my photos. Three months later, I have a working batch script and opinions about Windows networking.
TechJournal Jul 5 · 7 min

I just wanted to back up my photos. Three months later, I have a working batch script and opinions about Windows networking.

TL;DR

  • Immich is a self-hosted photo backup tool — open source, runs locally, looks and feels like Google Photos. I wanted it on my home machine without paying for cloud storage forever.
  • Installing it on Ubuntu in WSL2 was fine. Getting Windows to actually see it from the rest of the house was not fine.
  • WSL2 assigns a new internal IP every single reboot. This is a known thing. I learned it the hard way.
  • The fix: a batch script that grabs the current WSL IP and sets up port forwarding every time. It works. I run it manually. That’s where we are.

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