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Storware Integration with Backblaze B2
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      Storware provides a stable, agentless backup and snapshot-management solution for virtual machines, containers, storage providers, and applications that work on-premise and in the cloud. Storware supports multiple backup destinations for convenient data storage planning such as a local filesystem or a network file system (NFS)/common internet file system (CIFS) share, object storage (cloud providers), or enterprise backup providers.

      Before you begin: You must set up and configure Storware Backup and Recovery. You must also set up a Linux Server Host.

      Enable Backblaze B2

      Before you begin: You must have a Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage account. If you already have a Backblaze account and the left navigation menu contains a B2 Cloud Storage section, your account is already enabled for Backblaze B2.

      1. Sign in to the Backblaze web console.
      2. In the user menu in the upper-right corner of the page, select My Settings.
      3. Under Enabled Products, select the checkbox to enable B2 Cloud Storage.
      4. Review the Terms and Conditions, and click OK to accept them. 

      Create a Bucket

      1. Sign in to the Backblaze web console.
      2. In the left navigation menu under B2 Cloud Storage, click Buckets.
      3. Click Create a Bucket.
      4. Enter a name for your bucket. Bucket names must be at least six characters and globally unique.
        A message is displayed if your bucket name is already in use.
      5. Select a privacy setting: Private or Public.
        Note
        You can change a bucket's privacy settings at any time.
        Files that are in a private bucket require authentication to perform an action, for example, downloading.
        Public buckets do not require authentication so you can easily share files. If this is your first time creating a public bucket, complete the following tasks to ensure that you have the correct permissions to create a public bucket:

        1. Verify your email address.
        2. Have a payment history on file, or use the credit card form to pay a small fee that is credited to your account balance.
      6. If applicable, enable a Backblaze B2 server-side encryption key.
      7. Enable Object Lock to restrict a file from being modified or deleted for a specified period of time.
      8. Click Create a Bucket, and copy the value that is in the Endpoint field; you may need this value later.
      9. Click Lifecycle Settings to control how long to keep the files in your new bucket.
      Note
      Copy the S3 endpoint that is displayed for use in another step.

      Create an Application Key

      1. Sign in to the Backblaze web console.
      2. In the left navigation menu under B2 Cloud Storage, click Application Keys.
      3. Click Add a New Application Key, and enter an app key name.
        You cannot search an app key by this name; therefore, app key names are not required to be globally unique. Key names are limited to 100 characters and can contain letters, numbers, and "-", but not I18N characters, such as é, à, and ü.
      4. Select All or select a specific bucket in the Allow Access to Bucket(s) menu.
      5. Optionally, select your access type (Read and Write, Read Only, or Write Only).
      6. Optionally, select Allow List All Bucket Names.
        This option is required for the B2 Native API b2_list_buckets and the S3-Compatible API S3 List Buckets operations.
      7. Optionally, enter a file name prefix to restrict application key access only to files with that prefix.
        Depending on what you selected in step #4, this limits application key access to files with the specified prefix for all buckets or just the selected bucket.
      8. Optionally, enter a positive integer to limit the time, in seconds, before the application key expires.
        The value must be less than 1000 days (in seconds).
      9. Click Create New Key, and note the resulting keyID and applicationKey values.
      Note
      When you create a new app key, the response contains the actual key string, for example N2Zug0evLcHDlh_L0Z0AJhiGGdY. You can always find the keyID on this page, but for security, the applicationKey appears only once. Make sure you copy and securely save this value elsewhere.

      Add Backblaze B2 as a Storage Device

      1. Sign in to the Storware console.
      2. In the left navigation menu, select Backup Destination and select Object Storage.
      3. Select the Create Backup Destination menu, and select S3 compatible storage.
      4. In the General tab, enter a destination name and select a node configuration.
      5. In the Retention tab add an API URL. This field is optional if you use Amazon S3.
      6. Select Single bucket for all instances as the backup mode.
      7. Enter your bucket name.
      8. Select Parallel Download enabled.
      9. In the Keys tab, enter your keyID in the Access key field and enter your applicationKey in the Secret key field.
      10. Select Object tagging enabled, and click Save.

      Configure Storware

      1. In the left navigation menu, select Virtual Environments and select Infrastructure.
      2. Enter the required information for a new Hypervisor or Hypervisor Manager.
      3. In the left navigation menu, select Virtual Environments and select Backup SLAs.
      4. Under Primary Backup Destination, select newly created Backblaze B2 storage devices.
      5. In the left navigation menu, select Virtual Environments and select Instances.
        You should be able to see your available virtual machines (VMs).
      6. Click the backup icon that is associated with that VM, and complete backups to the cloud.
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