

Start by going to “My Settings” to see your account settings, then look under “Enabled Products” and make sure that the “B2 Cloud Storage” box is checked. Here is a partial list from their site.īefore you start using the CLI you are going to want to enable B2 Cloud Storage from the Backblaze web GUI.

There are several third party tools that can be used to interface with B2 on Linux. These are both great options if you are using Linux.

Backblaze Linux Toolsīackblaze comes with a CLI and an API. The OSX instructions look like what you would probably need to do to get this working on Linux. Taking a look at the documentation for their command line tool (see references section) I didn’t notice anything about installing on Linux but it looks like it is just a Python tool that should run just fine on Linux. You can even roll your own solution because Backblaze has an API for B2. Some of these are free, open source applications and others are proprietary. For their personal backup solution, that seems to be the case but for their B2 Cloud Storage service, it looks like Backblaze does support Linux.Ī lot of different tools can be used to interface with Backblaze B2. What about Backblaze Linux? Companies often times leave out Linux. Next, I noticed that they list support for Windows and OSX. On first learning of Backblaze one of my first thoughts was that it looks like a pretty decent backup solution.
