# 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](https://app.idrivee2.com/)
- Go to the [Buckets page](https://app.idrivee2.com/buckets) and click on **Create Bucket**
- Fill in your Bucket name, select a region and create the Bucket

![IDrive e2 screenshot 1](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/4c3345c193f137d9f048.png)

Good job, your bucket is created!

![IDrive e2 screenshot 2](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/87f4d2d2854b6d2905b2.png)

_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](https://app.idrivee2.com/access-key) 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

![IDrive e2 screenshot 3](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/f031b0e556939c0ca3fe.png)

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

![IDrive e2 screenshot 4](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/7e1adfc8c453f1a317f9.png)

### 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](https://my.simplebackups.com/storage/create) page
- Select **"IDrive e2"** as the storage provider and fill in the "Connect your storage" form with the information from step 1 and 2.

![IDrive e2 screenshot 5](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/c764673e2c756f34cffa.png)

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.