Air Live Drive supports Backblaze accounts.
If you want to add a Backblaze account, you have to add some information:
Backblaze offers an economical and easy solution to backup unlimited data to the cloud. With only $50 per year per computer, we think Backblaze is by far the most sensible personal online backup.
You can find these information, REST endpoint, Access Key ID and Secret Acces, in the Backblaze page.
- Innovative Companies Build on B2 Cloud Storage Organizations around the world choose Backblaze to solve for their use cases while improving their cloud OpEx vs. Amazon S3 and others.
- Granted, it isn’t the best solution for cloud storage (see pCloud for that instead). Still, with 600 Petabytes data stored and over 30 billion files recovered thus far, it really is the best choice for simple and convenient backing up of your computer files. 6 Things We Love About Backblaze. What makes Backblaze a worthwhile backup cloud storage provider is how it is engineered.
REST ENDPOINT
If you have a Backblaze account, enter in your account and navigate to the Buckets page and “Create a Bucket”.
Once you have created a bucket, you can find here the REST ENDPOINT.
ACCESS KEY ID and SECRET ACCESS
Nextcloud Backblaze Backup
For the Application Key ID and Application Key, head to the App Keys page and make a new key.
Once you’ve made your key, make sure you copy the Application Key ID and Application Key listed in the blue box.
With all the information filled, you can start to work with Backblaze in Air Live Drive.
Backblaze Vs Nextcloud
You can check more information here:
-Mount Amazon S3 as a local hard drive
-Mount Sharepoint Online as a local hard drive
-How to conect a WebDav server as a Windows drive
-pCloud in Air Live Drive
Hello,
I have Nextcloud 19 running fine in Docker containers on a Windows 10 Home host. Docker is using WSL2 for its virtualization host. I’m using a host mount to store the data files on a host NTFS disk, instead of inside the VHDX disk.
I use Backblaze Personal (not B2) for backup, and I have the client set to backup from the data drive. This is all working.
Nextcloud Backblaze B2
HOWEVER, there is a known performance issue with WSL2 and a Windows NTFS mount. They highly recommend that data stay in the VHDX drive. I would not mind moving that to my big drive. Then the data files could be accessed from Windows using the wsl$ path.
The problem with this is that now this would look to Backblaze like a network drive, and Backblaze won’t backup a network drive.
I’ve poked around and the only workaround I’ve found is to schedule occasional rsync/rclone jobs to mirror the data from the VHDX to the NTFS drive, and then point Backblaze to the mirror. Or course, this effectively halves my data capacity.
For those of you who use Docker for Nextcloud for personal use (i.e., not use B2 or S3, etc), how do you backup your data? Am I even doing it right?
My overall goal is to have backup with versioning and be able to access my 1TB of photos (I do serious amateur photography) from anywhere. I like the Dropbox model and it’s easy to to set up in-place backup/sync. Though now I’m wondering if I really need to sync ALL my files and find a solution that’s more dedicated to backup and syn only a small subset of my files.
Thanks!