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So I would need to start over.
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Emission
But I can't see the buckets I created with backblaze. Guess they are made there and just point their storage to S3Drive.
If you created buckets with Backblaze, then they're available (for listing or mgmt) in their admin panel, or you can list them on the S3Drive S3 config page (provided your Backblaze API key has bucket LIST capabilities, that is, it isn't tied only to a single bucket).
Guess they are made there and just point their storage to S3Drive.
I am not sure what you mean. Backblaze buckets are entirely separate from S3Drive storage. Neither S3Drive points to Backblaze or vice-versa. Data stored in Backblaze buckets stays solely in that bucket, same applies to S3Drive buckets.
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Thanks for the information. Seems I got all things set up wrong. No worries. It's easier like this and I learned in the process. Yes I used the S3Drive app to setup an endpoint somewhere else. Backblaze. 😄
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One more question. When adding a folder from my phone that has thousands of pictures, the app has trouble creating thumbnails and crashed when you open the "recent files" tab. However if you choose to sync media files, it doesn't have that problem and works flawlessly. Only problem is that you can't choose a folder name in the bucket then.
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Is there another way?
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And how can I point every user to their own bucket?
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Nevermind. Think I found it. Have to create API key and use that as login.
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Correct?
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However if you choose to sync media files, it doesn't have that problem and works flawlessly.
Just to be clear, do you refer to Sync or Media backup functionality?
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Correct?
That's right, API key is the way to go.
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Ok thank you for taking the time to answer my noob questions.
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One more question. When adding a folder from my phone that has thousands of pictures, the app has trouble creating thumbnails and crashed when you open the "recent files" tab. However if you choose to sync media files, it doesn't have that problem and works flawlessly. Only problem is that you can't choose a folder name in the bucket then.
However if you choose to sync media files, it doesn't have that problem and works flawlessly. Only problem is that you can't choose a folder name in the bucket then.
If you refer to Media backup, then you can configure the backup directory in the Account settings -> Backup path. If you refer to Sync then you can select destination folder as you like in the Configure sync, you can even create a new one on the go. On the screenshots I am syncing notes-light local folder to notes-light remote/cloud folder, but it could well be anything else.
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Says these credentials will never be shown again. So if I lose the key, I lose the bucket and its contents.
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Says these credentials will never be shown again. So if I lose the key, I lose the bucket and its contents.
If you lose API credentials, then you only lose access to your bucket, but data stays intact. If you decide to access your bucket you will either had to use device with already preconfigured / stored API key or will need to generate a new API key (provided you're logged in to your S3Drive's e-mail / password account). WARNING: If you enable E2E encryption (from the S3Drive settings) and you lose the encryption passphrase, then you won't be able to recover your data, but there is a relevant prompt in the app regarding that. (edited)
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Oh ok.
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I did everything right. But it won't start.
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By the looks of it, your backup is running, yet it hasn't backed up anything just yet, given the 0 out of 5264 counter. a) Can you double check if you're actually connected to WiFi (as per your Only on WiFi constraint selected)? b) Can you visit your auto-upload folder to see if anything ended up being uploaded? c) Can you visit Transfers tab to see if there is any pending progress? Perhaps it started uploading some bigger files (e.g. videos) that's why it takes longer initially to indicate at least single file upload? d) Did you specifically enable: MD5 verification? This setting was mostly implemented as a requirement for Object Lock support, but in your case you might be better of (performance-wise) to keep it disabled. In some rare cases backup counters might not update in live time (e.g. when upload was started by the background backup that runs in parallel when you opened the app). I am not sure if this was the case here, but we will improve that in the future. In such case closing the app and reopening the Media Backup tool would refresh stats. (edited)
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Tom
By the looks of it, your backup is running, yet it hasn't backed up anything just yet, given the 0 out of 5264 counter. a) Can you double check if you're actually connected to WiFi (as per your Only on WiFi constraint selected)? b) Can you visit your auto-upload folder to see if anything ended up being uploaded? c) Can you visit Transfers tab to see if there is any pending progress? Perhaps it started uploading some bigger files (e.g. videos) that's why it takes longer initially to indicate at least single file upload? d) Did you specifically enable: MD5 verification? This setting was mostly implemented as a requirement for Object Lock support, but in your case you might be better of (performance-wise) to keep it disabled. In some rare cases backup counters might not update in live time (e.g. when upload was started by the background backup that runs in parallel when you opened the app). I am not sure if this was the case here, but we will improve that in the future. In such case closing the app and reopening the Media Backup tool would refresh stats. (edited)
Yes I do have WiFi connected. Nothing in Auto-Upload folder. Nothing in Transfers. I tried switching off MD5 as well, as I thought that was the culprit.
11:42 AM
Restarted phone. Works now.
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Yes I do have WiFi connected. Nothing in Auto-Upload folder. Nothing in Transfers. I tried switching off MD5 as well, as I thought that was the culprit.
I know this isn't ideal, but one way would be to kill the app and start again... but before you do that, you could try visiting About -> Logs and see if there are any entries that may give us a hint.
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Restarted phone. Works now.
Good to know that. Sorry, hard to tell what could've happened.
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No problem. The app is under development and I'm hopeful it will get the bugs out. I'm also running it on GOS so it might behave a little different there. Is there a reason one should disable MD5 as per default?
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No problem. The app is under development and I'm hopeful it will get the bugs out. I'm also running it on GOS so it might behave a little different there. Is there a reason one should disable MD5 as per default?
Is there a reason one should disable MD5 as per default?
Mostly performance/battery related. Probably not an issue on desktop, but on mobile something to consider. MD5 is calculated on the server-side anyway (part of the S3 specs), so user has always a possibility to verify the file integrity (regardless of MD5 verification). If E2E encryption is enabled (with new V2 cipher), then MD5 hash is calculated anyway and added as the file footer (as per specs https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/7192), in such case enabling MD5 verification is just a technical detail. With MD5 verification disabled we haven't observed (nor received any reports) about file integrity issues. Mostly because there are other mechanisms in-place (e.g. file mod time and size verifications). Tl;dr; If you want increased file integrity mechanism at the cost of performance then you can keep MD5 verification enabled. In our opinion it is not really required in most cases.
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I'm really sorry for all these questions. But I have 2 more. Can I use the same API key for one bucket on more than one device? Or should I create another one. And if for instance I fill a bucket from a PC with photos. Can I see the thumbnails then on the Android client as well?
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I'm really sorry for all these questions. But I have 2 more. Can I use the same API key for one bucket on more than one device? Or should I create another one. And if for instance I fill a bucket from a PC with photos. Can I see the thumbnails then on the Android client as well?
No worries.
Can I use the same API key for one bucket on more than one device? Or should I create another one.
You can, but question is if you should or shouldn't. I always encourage users to use separate keys on a different devices. Live happens, you can lose device, or it might get stolen. If you have a separate key, then you simply revoke it and carry on. If you resued same key, then you would need to revoke that key and replace it on all your devices. <--- not too big deal either, as long as you have 2-3 devices and don't lose your phone too often. It also comes back to security question. For instance if your key is leaked somehow, which device are you going to blame? If you used separate key, you can pinpoint security incident with higher detail.
And if for instance I fill a bucket from a PC with photos. Can I see the thumbnails then on the Android client as well?
Yes, once thumbnails are generated, they're stored in .thumb folder and can be read by S3Drive app on other platforms.
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Can I setup media backup a one way sync? So I can delete photos I don't need on device and always retrieve them from the cloud?
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Can I setup media backup a one way sync? So I can delete photos I don't need on device and always retrieve them from the cloud?
Media backup is technically a one-way copy. It doesn't delete files on either side. Sync on the other hand has different modes, copy mode behaves in a same way as Media backup, but sync mode will delete files on the destination provided they were deleted on the origin/source.
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Good. That's what I hoped for. Good explaination and good app. Thanks a lot.
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Hi I bought the maximum storage option. But the Windows client wants me to enter the Ultimate license. I though it was included.
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The windows client also doesn't have the sync media option.
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Using V2 encryption would require adding this to the crypt: cipher_version = 2 however that's not yet supported by the official Rclone client, as https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/7192 isn't merged in. It requires more work, mostly in the area of unit tests and documentation that we need to do, in order for maintainer to accept the Pull Request. On what OS do you want to read your files? V2 cipher that we've built is open-source though, we could technically publish "unofficial" Rclone binaries
Hoping to be able to load it using rclone or something in windows and Linux. I would like to move over to Linux for Plex but when I do the mount I was having issues with getting permission to work due to ownership problems. I tried cipher_version = 2 but it still didn't work. If I need to move this topic somewhere let me know. Moving this route also lets me use custom caching.
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Hoping to be able to load it using rclone or something in windows and Linux. I would like to move over to Linux for Plex but when I do the mount I was having issues with getting permission to work due to ownership problems. I tried cipher_version = 2 but it still didn't work. If I need to move this topic somewhere let me know. Moving this route also lets me use custom caching.
I tried cipher_version = 2 but it still didn't work.
This requires using Rclone with V2 cipher support (https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/7192). It's not yet part of the mainline repo. You can use V2 cipher, as long as you build Rclone yourself, this isn't hard though. Fetch latest Rclone with V2 cipher support git clone https://github.com/tomekit/rclone.git git checkout v1.71.0-with-v2-cipher Build on Linux sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev go build -v --ldflags "-s -X github.com/rclone/rclone/fs.Version=v1.71.0-with-v2-cipher" -tags "cmount" Build on Windows. go run bin/resource_windows.go -version v1.71.0-with-v2-cipher -syso resource_windows_`go env GOARCH`.syso # WinFsp needs to be installed (incl. development package) SET CPATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\WinFsp\inc\fuse go build -v --ldflags "-s -X github.com/rclone/rclone/fs.Version=v1.71.0-with-v2-cipher" -tags "cmount" -buildmode exe In both cases you would receive an rclone library in the root folder. $ ./rclone --version rclone v1.71.0-with-v2-cipher - os/version: ubuntu 25.04 (64 bit) - os/kernel: 6.14.0-28-generic (x86_64) - os/type: linux - os/arch: amd64 - go/version: go1.24.5 - go/linking: dynamic - go/tags: cmount which you can either install on your OS or copy to specific place and use locally. I would be happy to assist you in case you're having issues with build.
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I tried cipher_version = 2 but it still didn't work.
This requires using Rclone with V2 cipher support (https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/7192). It's not yet part of the mainline repo. You can use V2 cipher, as long as you build Rclone yourself, this isn't hard though. Fetch latest Rclone with V2 cipher support git clone https://github.com/tomekit/rclone.git git checkout v1.71.0-with-v2-cipher Build on Linux sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev go build -v --ldflags "-s -X github.com/rclone/rclone/fs.Version=v1.71.0-with-v2-cipher" -tags "cmount" Build on Windows. go run bin/resource_windows.go -version v1.71.0-with-v2-cipher -syso resource_windows_`go env GOARCH`.syso # WinFsp needs to be installed (incl. development package) SET CPATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\WinFsp\inc\fuse go build -v --ldflags "-s -X github.com/rclone/rclone/fs.Version=v1.71.0-with-v2-cipher" -tags "cmount" -buildmode exe In both cases you would receive an rclone library in the root folder. $ ./rclone --version rclone v1.71.0-with-v2-cipher - os/version: ubuntu 25.04 (64 bit) - os/kernel: 6.14.0-28-generic (x86_64) - os/type: linux - os/arch: amd64 - go/version: go1.24.5 - go/linking: dynamic - go/tags: cmount which you can either install on your OS or copy to specific place and use locally. I would be happy to assist you in case you're having issues with build.
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Your seriously the best im going to be giving that a try right now i really appreciate the details on how to pull the right version.
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Hello, I'm looking to consolidate and move all my files from various storage providers (OneDrive, iCloud, Google Drive, etc.) to one powered by Rclone and S3Drive. I have a question: is it posssible to sync my end devices (desktops, phones) to multiple cloud providers / buckets? Or what are the best practices for redundant storage with S3Drive?
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Isaac
Hello, I'm looking to consolidate and move all my files from various storage providers (OneDrive, iCloud, Google Drive, etc.) to one powered by Rclone and S3Drive. I have a question: is it posssible to sync my end devices (desktops, phones) to multiple cloud providers / buckets? Or what are the best practices for redundant storage with S3Drive?
Hi @Isaac,
I'm looking to consolidate and move all my files from various storage providers (OneDrive, iCloud, Google Drive, etc.) to one powered by Rclone and S3Drive.
You can move (even though I would advise using copy and delete after you verify) multiple destinations to a single storage provider. Ideally if you dedicate separate folder on the destination for each of your source provider. If you try to copy/sync everything into one folder you risk file collision, which would then override the file on the destination simultaneously. You can configure it all in the Sync tab in S3Drive.
is it posssible to sync my end devices (desktops, phones) to multiple cloud providers / buckets?
Yes, you can configure same source folder to be backed up (use copy mode) or synchronized (use sync mode) to multile remote destinations. In such case you would want to create multiple Sync entries. Each for same source location and multiple destination locations. Are you on Android? If so, then S3Drive supports folder sync, so you can select pretty much any location on your phone. On iOS the access to file system is limited, folder sync is also supported, but you can't select your media files. In order to backup media files, you would need to use Media Backup functionality which can be configured for each configured destination remote within S3Drive destination separately, but will run only for currently selected profile/account. In other words you can configure multiple destinations, but i won't run concurrently unless you manually selected specific account.
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Isaac
Hello, I'm looking to consolidate and move all my files from various storage providers (OneDrive, iCloud, Google Drive, etc.) to one powered by Rclone and S3Drive. I have a question: is it posssible to sync my end devices (desktops, phones) to multiple cloud providers / buckets? Or what are the best practices for redundant storage with S3Drive?
This is how would you configure Sync on desktop or mobile. You can create multiple entries for same From/To, but as mentioned in my post above the caveat is to avoid file collisions.
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Can anyone help me with this? I've already checked the accesses and the key and secret are all correct, however I can't sync or copy from a local folder to a remote one.
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I can even access the bucket normally, view the files through the S3Drive app on the mobile device, I just can't sync/copy
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Gotta say this is one of the best storage apps I've every tried. The support for many providers is great and I can also see that there's been put much thought in a proper UX flow. I gladly upgraded to premium
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One thing that's missing I guess is a UI for the sync transfers, which is now just a raw json file
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Hi again, where exactly can I get an overbiew of my buckets on S3Drive again?
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*overview
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Emission
Hi again, where exactly can I get an overbiew of my buckets on S3Drive again?
Hi, On the accounts/profiles page.
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Sorry. I meant through webportal on PC.
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Can't find it.
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Or do I have to install the desktop app for that?
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Sorry. I meant through webportal on PC.
I am not sure if I understand, provided UI is exactly the same on desktop, mobile or whether you use Web client: https://web.s3drive.app/ (edited)
Easy-to-use client that converts any S3 server into your personal encrypted file storage. Rclone compatible, mount as drive, WebDav server, file versioning.
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Ok, thank you. Looked over the Web link on main page. Sorry.
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Hi. Another question. I migrared to a other phone. On last phone I used media backup. However on this new phone I choose that bucket and choose make the folder available offline. I can see it transferring files and building a database, but it's inaccesible to my files manager. (Android) It seems the files arz stored at root level and not to the folder I pointed it to. I just want to have a large liqt of thumbnails in my /DCIM/Camera folder, so when I want the full file, I can just click it and download it. Or if that's not possible, download all there.
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The latter I can do manuallly off course, but that what is the point of the option to make a folder available offline?
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Hi. Another question. I migrared to a other phone. On last phone I used media backup. However on this new phone I choose that bucket and choose make the folder available offline. I can see it transferring files and building a database, but it's inaccesible to my files manager. (Android) It seems the files arz stored at root level and not to the folder I pointed it to. I just want to have a large liqt of thumbnails in my /DCIM/Camera folder, so when I want the full file, I can just click it and download it. Or if that's not possible, download all there.
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Can't find the files on my device that were made available offline. Can't turn it off either. It saves them in root folder.
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Deleted the app. What's the point of Cloud storage if you can't access it in a practical way from another device? The app only lets me select 1000 or 2000 photos while there are 5700 in thr folder, so you can't really download them all back to device either.
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Can't select more than 3000 files. Eventhough there are 5534 in the folder. Can't scroll further down than 3000 and select all just increment in steps of 1000 and only if you scroll past that number. Any solutions? I really want my photos back.
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Installed again. Tried again. Doesn't work. App is buggy.
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Rebuilt cache several times.
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Deleted app again. Pity, cause I purchased the 1200 GB plan and was really hopeful. But the app needs soms serious work. I know it's work in progress and I don't want a refund, but can you please help me out here?
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Tried also without VPN. (edited)
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Deleted app again. Pity, cause I purchased the 1200 GB plan and was really hopeful. But the app needs soms serious work. I know it's work in progress and I don't want a refund, but can you please help me out here?
Hi @Emission, I understand your frustration but I would be willing help you out and provide an alternative workflow which should work in your case. I've moved out this conversation to support item: https://discord.com/channels/1069654792902815845/1413788227210580092 and will provide you further instructions within couple minutes. Thanks!
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Thank you.
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Hi. Another question. I migrared to a other phone. On last phone I used media backup. However on this new phone I choose that bucket and choose make the folder available offline. I can see it transferring files and building a database, but it's inaccesible to my files manager. (Android) It seems the files arz stored at root level and not to the folder I pointed it to. I just want to have a large liqt of thumbnails in my /DCIM/Camera folder, so when I want the full file, I can just click it and download it. Or if that's not possible, download all there.
You can sync all your backed up media to e.g. /DCIM/Camera or other folders using Sync. In that case From: would be your auto media backup destination and To: would end up being: /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera (this will be selectable using Android file picker once you click Local)
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Ok.
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I forgot the pin of my S3 Drive app
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How can I get in?
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I forgot the pin of my S3 Drive app
Hi, what’s your platform?
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Nevermind I fixed lol I Uninstalled and sign in again to all s3 storages
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Tom
Hi, what’s your platform?
Thank you anyways
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