Own BLOB Server

Besides dbedia::blob module there is also dbedia-blob script that is doing sha256 checksumming and uploading to a server. Simply by:

$ dbedia-blob --meta --base-uri https://b.dbedia.com/ --upload dollar-camel.png
https://b.dbedia.com/e018cdef54178fa53e63673697cfb59fd908707c4c379fb7f5e2bb2970ff8996/dollar-camel.png
---
filename: dollar-camel.png
mime_type: image/png
size: 19876

and the dollar-camel.png is online.

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a complete how-to would be something like:

• on server eager to host blobs:
  • Install NGINX
  • `mkdir /var/www/blobs`
  • add location to YOUR_HOSTNAME nginx config:

    location ~ "^(/..)(..)(..)(.{58})(.*)$" {
        alias /var/www/blobs/$1/$2/$3/$4;
        expires max;
    }

  • `adduser blob-user`
  • `chown blob-user /var/www/blobs`
  • `su - blob-user`
  • `ln -s /var/www/blobs`
• on workstation full of blobs:
  • Install dbedia::blob → `sudo apt-get install cpanm && sudo cpanm dbedia::blob` on Debian/Ubuntu
  • Add host config to ~/.ssh/config →

    Host dbedia-blob
    	HostName YOUR_SSH_SERVER
    	user blob-user

  • `ssh-copy-id YOUR_SSH_SERVER`
  • `cd FOLDER_FULL_OF_BLOBS`
  • `dbedia-blob --meta --base-uri http://YOUR_HOSTNAME/ --upload *.jpg`