d5ve
commented
3 years ago Hi, thanks for your interest in the perl server.
It's been a while since I last installed and ran the perl server for PhotoBackup, as I switched to using self-hosted nextcloud to backup photos and videos from my phone.
The way I used to install and run things was something like the below, which used an init script, and ran the server as a non-privileged user. These days I would probably have wrapped the whole thing in docker.
root> cpanm Net::PhotoBackup::Server
root> cat << EOF > /etc/init.d/photobackup-perl
#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: photobackup-perl
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs
# Should-Start: $network
# Should-Stop: $network
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Starts PhotoBackup perl service as user myuser.
# Description: Runs photobackup.pl as myuser to start
# the PhotoBackup PSGI app.
### END INIT INFO
USER=myuser
DIR=/home/$USER
PIDFILE=$DIR/.photobackup.pid
case "$1" in
start)
start-stop-daemon --start --chuid $USER --chdir $DIR \
--pidfile=$PIDFILE \
--exec /usr/local/bin/photobackup.pl -- run
;;
stop)
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PIDFILE
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop}" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
EOF
root> su - myuser
myuser> /usr/local/bin/photobackup.pl init
myuser> exit
root> update-rc.d photobackup-perl defaults
root> invoke-rc.d photobackup-perl restartI hope this is helpful, and please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.
Dave
inspector71
PhotoBackup looks like my sort of thinking. Mobile app merely copying images to my server. Brilliant. Except the server part.
This Perl lib is sensational work and arguably I would ideally have the time and headspace to implement a wrapper around it. However, no sense re-writing the wheel, to butcher a phrase. Is there an ubuntu / debbie package to install or a wrapper script I can set up?
Guessing some installation instructions would be great. If there is nothing out there, I can have a go and see if my efforts are worth documenting for the greater good.