Hello Guys, there is a project which uses IPFS-JS. I have many valuable files In IPFS-JS in my browser’s local storage. I understand that those files are stored in blocks.
I want to backup those blocks from my local IPFS-JS node to ensure they will be available later.
Is there any way to backup them so that my go-ipfs node would distribute them?
For example, by using pubkey of the node in my Browser?
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js-ipfs in the browser uses IndexedDB to store blocks.
Some ideas to explore:
- Connect the browser app to your Kubo node using WebSockets and request those blocks on Kubo. Consider that there are some transport constraints (see this: js-ipfs/BROWSERS.md at master · ipfs/js-ipfs · GitHub). So ideally your browser app running js-ipfs is running in localhost, so you don’t need a TLS certificate.
- Send the blocks over HTTP to a Kubo node using the
block putendpoint Kubo RPC API | IPFS Docs - Try to back up your IndexedDB. This is not so trivial but you can try it Export IndexedDB from a web app using devtools | by David Fahlander | Medium
- Using the DAG API (js-ipfs/DAG.md at master · ipfs/js-ipfs · GitHub) to create a CAR file and uploading to a pinning service with an endpoint that accepts CAR files (Web3 Storage - The simple file storage service for IPFS & Filecoin.)
Thank you so much for the information and links. I will investigate them and be back with my results
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