Using BackBlaze B2 from Ubuntu 16.04 to Upload Files

[scottalanmiller]

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ sudo pip install --upgrade pip
$ sudo pip install --upgrade b2

This gives us the b2 command on Ubuntu. Now we can use this to talk to the B2 servers.

$ b2 authorize_account youraccountid
Using https://api.backblaze.com
Backblaze application key: yourapplicationkeythatyougenerate
$ b2 list_buckets

This will list all of your current buckets. If you need to make a new bucket:

$ b2 create_bucket myBucket allPublic
10f72c8d00b1ea614ceb0319

What is returned is the bucket ID. Use your b2 list_buckets command again to see that your list has grown. We can use b2 ls to see that our bucket is empty, too.

$ b2 ls myBucket

Now that we have a bucket we can upload a file to it.

$ b2 upload_file myBucket system.bak backups/system.bak

That's it!

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/
@aaron