How to Set Up Offsite Backup to Backblaze B2

Backblaze B2 costs $6/TB/month — 10x cheaper than Amazon S3. It is the best value cloud storage for server backups.

Step 1 — Create Account and Bucket

Sign up at backblaze.com/b2 → Create bucket → Create application key with write access

Step 2 — Install rclone

curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

Step 3 — Configure rclone for B2

rclone config
# n → Name: b2backup → Type: 2 (Backblaze B2)
# Enter Account ID and Application Key

Step 4 — Backup Script

#!/bin/bash
DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
TEMP="/tmp/backup-$DATE"
mkdir -p $TEMP

tar -czf $TEMP/www-$DATE.tar.gz /var/www
mysqldump --all-databases -u root -p'password' | gzip > $TEMP/databases-$DATE.sql.gz
rclone copy $TEMP b2backup:backups-yourserver/$DATE --progress
rm -rf $TEMP

Conclusion

Backblaze B2 offers the best value for offsite backup storage. Our team configures offsite backup solutions using B2 and other providers.