# Sliplane Object Storage

Steps to connect your Sliplane Object Storage bucket to SimpleBackups.

Sliplane Object Storage is an S3-compatible storage service offered by [Sliplane](https://sliplane.io), a European container hosting platform. You can connect a Sliplane bucket to SimpleBackups and use it as a backup destination for your databases, files, and SaaS backups. This guide walks you through creating a bucket, generating an access key, and linking everything together.

## Why use Sliplane for backups

Sliplane buckets support versioning, object locking, and lifecycle rules, and charge no ingress, egress, or request fees. That makes them a good fit for backup storage, where you write often and occasionally need to download a full archive to restore. Buckets are hosted in Germany or the US, so you can keep your backups close to the region your data lives in.

Sliplane access keys are scoped to a single bucket. SimpleBackups uploads your backups directly to that bucket over HTTPS, and the key you provide never grants access to anything else in your Sliplane account.

## Step 1: Create a bucket

1. Log in to the [Sliplane dashboard](https://sliplane.io/app/object-storage) and open **Object Storage**.
2. Click **Create bucket**.
3. Choose a bucket name and a region. Sliplane offers **Germany (Frankfurt)** and **US East (New York)**.
4. Confirm to create the bucket.

Keep the bucket name and region at hand. You will need both in step 3.

## Step 2: Create an access key

Sliplane generates access keys per bucket, so each key only grants access to the bucket it was created for.

1. Open the bucket you just created and go to **Access keys**.
2. Click **Create access key** and give it a descriptive name, for example `simplebackups`.
3. Copy the **Access key** and the **Secret key**.

**The secret key is shown once:**
Sliplane displays the secret key only at creation time. If you lose it, create a new access key and update your SimpleBackups storage with the new credentials.

## Step 3: Connect the bucket to SimpleBackups

In SimpleBackups, go to the [connect your storage](https://my.simplebackups.com/storage/create) page and select **Sliplane Object Storage** as the provider.

Fill in the storage form:

- **Key**: the access key from step 2.
- **Secret**: the secret key from step 2.
- **Region**: the region you chose in step 1, either **Germany (Frankfurt)** or **US East (New York)**.
- **Bucket**: the bucket name from step 1.
- **Path**: an optional folder inside the bucket where your backups will be stored. Leave it empty to use the bucket root.
- **Name**: a label for this storage in SimpleBackups. The bucket name works well.

Click **Save new storage**. SimpleBackups verifies the connection and, once saved, your Sliplane bucket is available as a destination when you create or edit a backup.

**Info:**
The region you select in SimpleBackups must match the region of the bucket. A bucket created in Germany is not reachable through the US East endpoint, and the connection check will fail with a "bucket not found" error.

## Troubleshooting

If the connection check fails with an access denied error, the access key was most likely created for a different bucket. Sliplane keys are bucket-scoped, so create a new key from the **Access keys** page of the bucket you want to use.

If the check fails with a bucket not found error, confirm that the **Region** field matches the region the bucket was created in, and that the **Bucket** field contains the exact bucket name with no leading or trailing spaces.

- [Storage Providers](https://simplebackups.com/docs/storage-providers/overview): Learn how storage destinations work in SimpleBackups and compare the available providers.