# Backblaze B2

Steps to connect your Backblaze B2 storage to SimpleBackups

## How to Connect your Backblaze bucket to SimpleBackups

### 1. Create your Backblaze b2 Bucket

- [Log into your Backblaze account](https://secure.backblaze.com/user_signin.htm)
- Go to the [Bucket page](https://secure.backblaze.com/b2_buckets.htm) create a new Bucket

![Backblaze B2 screenshot 1](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/031e13cfc5f30ce9f4f7.png)

- Fill in your Bucket name and create the Bucket

![Backblaze B2 screenshot 2](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/e96787f60cd8dda207a5.png)

Good job! Your bucket is created.

![Backblaze B2 screenshot 3](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/d2ec2eafc46176f3cfd5.png)

_Don't leave the Backblaze interface yet, we'll now have to create your credentials._

### Information You'll Need In Step 3

- Your **Bucket name**, in this case "myacme-bucket"
- Your **Bucket region**, in this case "us-west-002"

### 2. Create your Bucket credentials

Great! Now that we have a Bucket, we need to create the credentials required to access it.

- Go to the ["App Keys" page](https://secure.backblaze.com/app_keys.htm?) and click on "Add a new Application Key" button

### Fill In The Form By Defining

- Name of the Key: we like to use a reference of the Bucket we're creating the credentials for
- Allow access to Bucket(s): Access to "All Buckets" is less secure, we strongly recommend that you select the bucket you want to use only.

Leave the rest of the option empty and create your key.

![Backblaze B2 screenshot 4](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/26e3c3d11f52cd4f0b88.png)

You'll get a confirmation message including your **KeyID** and **applicationKey**, which is what we need to connect your storage to SimpleBackups.

![Backblaze B2 screenshot 5](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/6ce659b4a294eeeaae7c.png)

### Information You'll Need In Step 3

- **applicationKey**
- **KeyID**

### 3. Connect your Bucket to SimpleBackups

So far we have created a Bucket and have created the required credentials to get access to this it.The only remaining step is connecting this new storage to SimpleBackups.

- Log into SimpleBackups and head to the [connect your storage](https://my.simplebackups.com/storage/create) page
- Select **"Backblaze B2"** as storage provider and fill in the "Connect your storage" form with the information from step 1 and 2.

![Backblaze B2 screenshot 6](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/3d6ca04b0d968c5c1cbf.png)

You'll have to input :

- **Key**: KeyID described in (step 2)
- **Secret**: applicationKey described in (step 2)
- **Region**: Bucket region described in (step 1)
- **Bucket**: Bucket name described in (step 1)
- Give your storage a **name** (usually we like to use the Bucket name) and click on "Save new storage".