--- title: Jacob Kaplan-Moss | daily.dev description: A personal setup guide for self-hosting Immich on a Synology NAS to consolidate photos from Google Photos, old NAS archives, and ongoing iPhone captures.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/jacob-kaplan-moss-lopondfur twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Jacob Kaplan-Moss | daily.dev og:description: A personal setup guide for self-hosting Immich on a Synology NAS to consolidate photos from Google Photos, old NAS archives, and ongoing iPhone captures.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/jacob-kaplan-moss-lopondfur og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LoPoNDfur.png og:image:alt: Jacob Kaplan-Moss og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Jacob Kaplan-Moss **[Jacob Kaplan-Moss](https://daily.dev/sources/jacobian)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal setup guide for self-hosting Immich on a Synology NAS to consolidate photos from Google Photos, old NAS archives, and ongoing iPhone captures. Covers installation via Docker Compose, storage template configuration, adding a Caddy sidecar for CORS headers, one-time bulk imports using immich-go, and an ongoing nightly sync from iCloud using osxphotos with a Python/uv wrapper script. The author keeps iCloud as the primary capture tool while using Immich as the long-term archive and browsing interface. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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