
Leverage this KB in order to move backup files. A backup service specialist, Backblaze describes their B2 cloud object storage service as S3 compatible and purpose built to provide simplicity, reliability.

Then, create SOBR with the Backup Repos where you have backups that you want to COPY/MOVE to BackBlaze, and you are good to go. The Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage S3 Compatible API implements the most commonly used actions from the AWS S3 API, and easily integrates with your existing applications, data management tools, and S3 gateways. I understand that you do not want all your Backups to go to Object Storage, so for now the only way to achieve this would be to create more logical local repositories, meaning folders on your current Repository, and then create normal Backup Repositories and move there the Backups that you want to keep out of the cloud, and point the jobs to those new Repositories. In future releases, you would be able to select Object Storage directly as a Backup Repo, for Backups, or Backup Copy jobs, but meanwhile, yes you need to create a SOBR. In order to leverage Object Storage as a Backup Repository, you need to combine it with a Scale-out Backup Repository so you have different tiers, Performance Tier is your current Storage where your backups are, and then Capacity Tier (Object Storage), and there is one more which is Archive Tier but not important on this question. The short answer is, that you are correct about what you have seen from BackBlaze.

Click “Add New Application Key”, name it, then click “Create New Key”. Go to B2 Cloud Storage and click on Sign Up Today.Ĭlick on “App Keys” or go to this page. Step 1: Configuring Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

So I have decided to write a quick guide on how I got it to work with my current community: Turns out they launched the feature 30 minutes before I had looked (what luck!). I noticed this old post which confused me, because I had just looked at Backblaze B2 and saw that it was S3 compatible. So I was following the Digital Ocean Spaces guide, and I started looking around for cheaper providers for my (very) small community.
