IDrive e2

Steps to connect your IDrive storage to SimpleBackups

How to Connect your IDrive e2 bucket to SimpleBackups

1. Create your IDrive e2 Bucket

• Log into your IDrive account
• Go to the Buckets page and click on Create Bucket
• Fill in your Bucket name, select a region and create the Bucket

Good job, your bucket is created!

Don't leave the Idrive interface yet, we'll now have to create your credentials.

Information You'll Need In Step 3

• Your Bucket name, in this case "acme-bucket"

2. Create your Bucket credentials

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

• Go to the "App Keys" page and click on "Create Access Key" button

Fill In The Form With

• 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.
• Assign permissions: Read and write - Allows write backup archives but also to retrieve them during the backup restore process

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

Information You'll Need In Step 3

• Endpoint Key
• Access Key
• Secret Key

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 page
• Select "IDrive e2" as the storage provider and fill in the "Connect your storage" form with the information from step 1 and 2.

You'll have to input :

• Key: Access Key described in (step 2)
• Secret: Secret Leu described in (step 2)
• Endpoint: Endpoint url generated in step 2, preceded by "https://"
• 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".

Once saved, your IDrive e2 bucket will be available as a storage destination for your backups.