StorX Network Integration Series: Backup with Cloudinary

StorX Network continues to expand its ecosystem with strategic integrations designed to strengthen decentralized cloud storage capabilities. In its latest move, StorX is integrating with Cloudinary, a globally recognized cloud-based media management platform. This collaboration bridges the power of decentralized storage with enterprise-grade media optimization, enabling businesses, developers, and creators to store, manage, and safeguard their digital assets more efficiently than ever before.

What is Cloudinary ?

Cloudinary is a leading cloud platform that helps developers and enterprises manage the entire lifecycle of media assets — images, videos, and other rich content. From uploading and storing to optimizing, manipulating, and delivering media across web and mobile applications, Cloudinary has become a trusted solution for modern digital experiences.

By integrating Cloudinary into its backup solutions, StorX empowers users with a seamless way to ensure that critical media files are securely stored on a decentralized network while still benefiting from Cloudinary’s advanced optimization and delivery features.

This integration not only adds an additional layer of redundancy and security but also enhances performance, scalability, and reliability — giving businesses confidence that their visual assets are both protected and primed for high-quality digital delivery.

Create an account with Cloudinary

1. Use the link to create your account with Cloudinary “https://cloudinary.com/users/register_free” .
2. Once the account is created login to the account and you will see the below dashboard on your screen.

3. Now click on the programmable media from the side nav-bar and you will see the below dashboard.

Note: — You will require the cloud name for the configuration with rclone.
4. Click on the settings from the side navigation bar and click on the API Keys you will get the list of the api Key as shown below you may require this for the rclone configuration.

Access Credentials from StorX

Before you begin you need to have an account in StorX Network to enjoy the services seamlessly. Join our community now by clicking on the link https://storx.io/ .

Once you have setup your account you need few mandatory credentials below:

• Access Key
• Secret Key
• Endpoints

How to get the access key , secret key and the endpoints form StorX ?

• Login to your storx account using your username password or any of the given social signup option

• Once you login you will reach to this dashboard. In this dashboard, click on user icon at the top

• When you click on user icon it will open dropdown list From that list click on access

• When you click on the access list it will open this screen from where you can create an access token.
• When you click on Create button it will open this popup
• Provide a name to your access key and click on “Continue” button

• Once you confirm all the details and click on confirm it will open this popup with all required tokens
• To copy All keys you can click on “copy” button
• To download All keys you can click on “Download” button
• If you click on Show Key it will show key for that block

• These are the example values for how access key, secret key and Endpoint will have values.

Rclone Installation and setup in Ubuntu

1. Install the Rclone using the command below
   a. sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y rclone

2. Confirm if the rclone is installed and is updated on by checking it’s version using the command below.
a. rclone — version

3. Configure the rclone with storx using below commands (Make sure you have the Access credentials of the storx if not you need to scroll up to check for the credentials)
a. rclone config

In the configuration first select the option new remote if you have not linked any of your storage yet once done now select the type of storage as “Amazon s3 compliant”

Now choose the provider as “Any s3 compatible provider”

Skip the “Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).” Operation by clicking enter.

Enter the access credentials and the secret key followed by the endpoints as shown below.

Skip all the other options using the enter key until you are asked to provide “ACL” choose the option as per your choice and continue until you save the remote access.

1. Now let’s verify if the connection is established properly using the below commands
   a. rclone ls “your_remote_connection_name”:

Let’s Setup Cloudinary with storX using the rclone

1. Enter the command below and follow the guidelines as shown below to setup the rclone.
   a. rclone config

b. Select the option “New remote” , Provide the name for your remote repository and select the storage type as “Webdav”.

c. Now provide the URL as available in the cloudinary account.
cloudinary://api_key:api_secret@cloud_name

d. Provide your user name as api key and the password as api secret as shown below and save the remote repository.

2. Once the creation is done you can see the listing is happening properly as below.

3. Now let’s see how we can perform the transfer of the data to the storx from Cloudinary.
a. Create a cloudinary backup script using the command below.
i. nano ~/cloudinary_backup.sh

4. Once the backup script is implemented you need to make the file executable using the command.
a. chmod +x ~/cloudinary_backup.sh

5. Once the file is made executable you can run the command to start the backup.
a. ~/cloudinary_backup.sh

6. Now since the backup is done successfully you can view into the storX vault to confirm.

Congratulations you have finally established the backup Cloudinary with StorX.

About StorX:

StorX is a decentralized cloud storage network that empowers users to store their data securely in the cloud. Each file uploaded on StorX is split and encrypted into multiple fragments to autonomous storage nodes operated by individual operators worldwide. Designed as a collection of independent storage networks, no particular operator has complete access to your data. StorX is faster than legacy centralized storage providers and also allows users to save substantial amounts on costs compared to a centralized cloud. StorX enables users with spare storage capacity to lease space and earn great returns in SRX tokens.

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