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Backblaze B2

To send the backups to Backblaze B2, navigate to the Store backups in selected destinations section, click on the plus icon, and select Backblaze B2.

Basic minimum settings

If you chose to send backups to Backblaze B2,  you will see this form:

On the Backblaze B2 Settings form you’ll need to specify how to connect to your Backblaze B2 account.

In the open dialog, specify the following:

  • Key ID. Please specify either the Master Application Key ID or the Application ID here. The Key ID can be created on the Application Keys page of your Backblaze account.

  • Application Key. Please specify either the Master Application Key or the Application Key here. The Application Keys can be found on the Application Keys page of your Backblaze account.

  • Bucket. The bucket name must be unique across all of Backblaze B2. If the bucket does not exist, a new one will be created.
  • Auto delete old backups after. Set the retention period for your old backups by specifying the time interval. If the backup was executed successfully and uploaded to the storage without issues, then after this period expires, the old backup will be deleted.

ID and key can be found on the B2 Cloud Storage Buckets page of your Backblaze account:

Advanced backup settings

  • Auto delete Diff & TranLog after Months. Specify the time period after which old differential and transaction log backups should be deleted.
  • Send backup types. Tick off what backup types will be stored in the destination.
  • Verify backup files on the destination after uploading. After uploading a file to the destination, SQLBackupAndFTP verifies that the files have been successfully uploaded to the destination. This verification is done by querying the file size at the destination and comparing it with the size of the file locally.
    This feature is useful as it allows you to understand if there were any issues with the backup at the time of its creation. This option is enabled by default; however, in rare cases, this verification may result in a false positive. This means that the file was uploaded correctly, but for some reason, the file size returned incorrectly. For example, this can happen when the file is saved on a device that supports hardware compression. For such cases, you can disable this option.
  • Emergency destination. If this option is enabled, SQLBackupAndFTP will use this destination only when there are errors copying the backup to the primary storage. For example, this might occur if there is insufficient space in the regular storage.

Advanced Backblaze B2 settings

  • Path. Relative path in <storage name>.

Please remember to test the destination connection before saving the settings.