Persist Images

[Richieval]

Hello, i 've deployed your kb system on heroku with a configured mongodb, images are saved on files system under "uploads". When the dyno sleep or is daily rebooted by heroku the images are lost. Any suggestion for persist images?

[preeteshjain]

Same issue here. For me, on restarting dynos, entire data is lost.

[briangonzalez]

We did something similar to this at Curri (where uploadFileToFirebase uploads the file to firebase):

router.post(
  '/file/upload_file',
  common.restrict,
  inline_upload.single('file'),
  async (req, res, next) => {
    if(req.file){
      // check for upload select
      const upload_dir = path.join(appDir, 'public', 'uploads', 'inline_files');
      const relative_upload_dir = req.app_context + '/uploads/inline_files';

      const file = req.file;
      const source = fs.createReadStream(file.path);
      const dest = fs.createWriteStream(
        path.join(upload_dir, file.originalname)
      );

      // save the new file
      source.pipe(dest);
      source.on('end', () => {});

      const uploadedFile = await uploadFileToFirebase(
        file.path,
        bucketPath
      );

      // delete the temp file.
      fs.unlink(file.path, err => {});

      // uploaded
      res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' });

      res.end(JSON.stringify({
        filename: uploadedFile,
      }))

      return;
    }
    res.writeHead(500, { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' });
    res.end(JSON.stringify({ filename: 'fail' }, null, 3));
  }
);