Hence the random numbers at the end of the bucket name. Navigate to the B2 Cloud Storage Buckets page,īucket names must be unique across all of B2, including the names of other user’s buckets! Before you can back anything up to B2 you “unable to create lock in backend” errorīacking up a new machine for the first time 1.“Please specify repository location” error.Deleting snapshots with restic forget and restic prune.Restoring files from a snapshot with restic restore.Listing files in snapshots with restic ls.

Listing snapshots with restic snapshots.

Comparing two snapshots with restic diff.

Doing a dry run with restic backup -dry-run.

Backing up just one file to the same repo.

Initialize a restic repo in the B2 bucket Generate a RESTIC_PASSWORD and save it in Bitwarden and pass Create an application key for the B2 bucket Backing up a new machine for the first time.The defaults should be good for most cases. This will list a bunch of supported remotes, find Backblaze B2 in the list, and enter the corresponding number into the promptįor Account, use the keyID received from generating the App keyįor Key, use the `applicationKey1 received from generating the App key Give it a name (such as backblaze-bucketname) In Linux, enter the command rclone config Make sure to save the keyID and applicationKey for later.If you want to restrict the key to a specific bucket, choose it from the dropdown.Scroll down, click Add a New Application Key.Make sure you have a Backblaze account created, and log in. As long as you don’t get the “Unrecognized command” error, you’re good! To check if Rclone is installed properly, just type rclone in your CLI. It can be installed by following the tutorial on their docs. Rclone is a tool written in Go that allows the movement of files between local and remote directories.

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