I gave up trying to get backblaze to work and switched to Wasabi with s3fs-fuse. It was really easy to setup, and so far has been quite fast and reliable. The price is very similar too.
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019, 5:36 PM sruckh--- via Bacula-users < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I have used bacula off and on again for many years. Recently in this > list I was asking for help trying to integrate Bacula with back-end > cloud storage. Namely, I was trying to integrate with Backblaze cloud > storage. I went around trying different solutions, and thought I would > share here. > > My first attempt was to use rclone-changer (http://bit.ly/2DdvEEL). As > I had used both rclone and duplicity using various scripts, this seemed > like a natural place to start. Unfortunately, I could not get any > farther than what it looked like other users experienced. It would work > with a single virtual volume, but when you would try to label tapes with > barcode command, it could not load and unload virtual tapes and label > them correctly (outside the first volume). It looked like other people > had had the same experience (based on bug reports). I was never able to > get the solution working outside of using the one single virtual volume. > > Next I went for using, bacula's native, bacula-cloud-storage module. > When I first starting down this path I was unaware that it was designed > for S3/AWS. As I was wanting a Backblaze solution, I searched for a > solution from the interwebs. This is where I found minio > (http://bit.ly/2EW0ulV). It is basically a proxy between S3 command set > and Backblaze that allows for backing up files in this fashion > bacula->bacula-cloud-storage->minio->B2-cloud-engine. Although I did > get this working, and it could certainly be a solution, I just was not > comfortable with the configuration (don't have a real technical reason > why I did not stick with solution). > > Next up I went with vchanger ( http://bit.ly/2E297eg ) and OpenDedup ( > http://bit.ly/2ETFaxF ). In this solution I use OpenDedup to mount my > Backblaze bucket to my local file-system, and use the vchanger script to > act as my autochanger for my virtual volumes. Again, I am not 100% I > completely have a handle of the mounted SDFS (backblaze volume). For > example, it uses your local file system for speed. So I have not tested > the scenario if my local volume disappeared. I am not 100% certain if I > would be able to 100% recover using only the files (virtual tape > volumes) that are in the cloud. > > On a side note I use the vchanger script outside of just for use with > Backblaze storage. > > I don't have enough testing or experience with any of the configurations > to recommend a good solution, but I thought it might be worth sharing > some of the various configurations I tried with the goal of being able > to integrate bacula with a back-end cloud storage engine. > > Thank You. > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >
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