There are a thousand-and-one backup solutions for Linux, but all of them are targeted at sysadmins-nothing as “fire-and-forgettable” as I was used to. So I had to cancel my Backblaze personal backup account and go looking for a Linux-friendly option. Unfortunately, the market for easy-automated-backup-apps seems to be limited to Windows and macOS. So when I recently built myself a Linux desktop for the first time in a while, I wanted an equally painless backup solution. My wife and I have been longtime users of Backblaze to backup all our personal files on our MacBooks. If you are interested in Duplicity or Restic, we've written articles on how to configure them for use with B2:ī2 costs are based on the amount of data stored.One of the regular email notifications I get from my backup configuration. You can read about third-party tools that support B2 at. Other options are available for B2 that include NAS support and hybrid solutions. Linux-based tools that support B2 include Duplicity, MSP360, qBackup, GoodSync, HashBackup, Duplicacy, and Restic, with more coming. The information on how to install the B2 command line tool is here: Linux Applications for B2 There also is a B2 command line tool that can be used to upload data, and used in scripts to upload data on a schedule. These include open-source (free) and commercial applications, command-line (CLI) and graphical interface (GUI) tools, and tools that include encryption, automation, hybrid NAS/B2 support, mounting remote archives as volumes, and other capabilities.īackblaze also offers an API that can be used to create your own tools that work with B2.
There are a variety of options for using Linux with B2.
With the release of B2 from Backblaze, Linux users now have the ability to back up to our cloud storage service.
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