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-date = 2023-06-28
-title = "Getting Started with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage"
-description = "An introduction to the free ttier of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage."
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-
-## Overview
-
-Backblaze [B2 Cloud
-Storage](https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html) is an
-inexpensive and reliable on-demand cloud storage and backup solution.
-
-The service starts at \$5/TB/month (\$0.005/GB/month) with a download
-rate of \$0.01/GB/month.
-
-However, there are free tiers:
-
--   The first 10 GB of storage is free.
--   The first 1 GB of data downloaded each day is free.
--   Class A transactions are free.
--   The first 2500 Class B transactions each day are free.
--   The first 2500 Class C transactions each day are free.
-
-You can see which API calls fall into categories A, B, or C here:
-[Pricing Organized by API
-Calls](https://www.backblaze.com/b2/b2-transactions-price.html).
-
-For someone like me, who wants an offsite backup of their server's
-`/home/` directory and various other server configs that fall
-under 10 GB total, Backblaze is a great solution from a financial
-perspective.
-
-## Create An Account
-
-To start with Backblaze, you'll need to [create a free
-account](https://www.backblaze.com/b2/sign-up.html) - no payment method
-is required to sign up.
-
-Once you have an account, you can test out the service with their web
-GUI, their mobile app, or their CLI tool. I'm going to use the CLI tool
-below to test a file upload and then sync an entire directory to my
-Backblaze bucket.
-
-## Create a Bucket
-
-Before you can start uploading, you need to create a bucket. If you're
-familiar with other object storage services, this will feel familiar. If
-not, it's pretty simple to create one.
-
-As their webpage says:
-
-> A bucket is a container that holds files that are uploaded into B2
-> Cloud Storage. The bucket name must be globally unique and must have a
-> minimum of 6 characters. A limit of 100 buckets may be created per
-> account. An unlimited number of files may be uploaded into a bucket.
-
-Once you click the `Create a Bucket` button on their webpage
-or mobile app, you need to provide the following:
-
--   Bucket Unique Name
--   Files in Bucket are: `Private` or `Public`
--   Default Encryption: `Disable` or `Enable`
--   Object Lock: `Disable` or `Enable`
-
-For my bucket, I created a private bucket with encryption enabled and
-object lock disabled.
-
-Once your bucket is created, you can test the upload/download feature on
-their web GUI or mobile app! At this point, you have a fully functional
-bucket and account.
-
-## Linux CLI Tool
-
-### Installation
-
-To install the `b2` CLI tool, you'll need to download it
-from the [CLI
-Tools](https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-command-line-tools)
-page. I recommend copying the URL from the link that says
-`Linux` and using wget to download it, as shown below.
-
-Once downloaded, make the file executable and move it to a location on
-your `$PATH`, so that you can execute that command from
-anywhere on the machine.
-
-```sh
-wget <b2_cli_url>
-chmod +x b2_linux
-mv b2_linux /usr/bin/b2
-```
-
-### Log In
-
-The first step after installation is to log in. To do this, execute the
-following command and provide your `<applicationKeyId>` and
-`<applicationKey>`.
-
-If you don't want to provide these values in the command itself, you
-can simply execute the base command and it will request them in an
-interactive prompt.
-
-```sh
-# if you want to provide the keys directly:
-b2 authorize-account [<applicationKeyId>] [<applicationKey>]
-
-# or, if you don't want your keys in your shell history:
-b2 authorize-account
-```
-
-### Upload a Test File
-
-In order to test the functionality of the CLI tool, I'll start by
-uploading a single test file to the bucket I created above. We can do
-this with the `upload_file` function.
-
-The command is issued as follows:
-
-```sh
-b2 upload_file <bucket_name> <local_file> <remote_file>
-```
-
-In my situation, I executed the following command with my username.
-
-```sh
-b2 upload_file my_unique_bucket /home/<user>/test.md test.md
-```
-
-To confirm that the file was uploaded successfully, list the files in
-your bucket:
-
-```sh
-b2 ls <bucket_name>
-```
-
-```txt
-test.md
-```
-
-### Sync a Directory
-
-If you have numerous files, you can use the `sync` function
-to perform functionality similar to `rsync`, where you can
-check what's in your bucket and sync anything that is new or modified.
-
-The command is issued as follows:
-
-```sh
-b2 sync <source file location> <B2 bucket destination>
-```
-
-In my case, I can sync my user's entire home directory to my bucket
-without specifying any of the files directly:
-
-```sh
-b2 sync /home/<user>/ "b2://<bucketName>/home/<user>"
-```
-
-## Caveats
-
-### Timing of Updates to the Web GUI
-
-When performing actions over a bucket, there is a slight delay in the
-web GUI when inspecting a bucket or its file. Note that simple actions
-such as uploading or deleting files may have a delay of a few minutes up
-to 24 hours. In my experience (\<10 GB and \~20,000 files), any actions
-took only a few minutes to update across clients.
-
-### Symlinks
-
-Note that symlinks are resolved by b2, so if you have a link from
-`/home/<user>/nas-storage` that symlinks out to a
-`/mnt/nas-storage` folder that has 10TB of data,
-`b2` will resolve that link and start uploading all 10TB of
-data linked within the folder.
-
-If you're not sure if you have any symlinks, a symlink will look like
-this (note the `->` symbol):
-
-```sh
-> ls -lha
-lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   20 Jun 28 13:32 nas -> /mnt/nas-storage/
-```
-
-You can recursively find symlink in a path with the following command:
-
-```sh
-ls -lR /path/to/search | grep '^l'
-```