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Minio B2 Gateway

Minio Gateway adds Amazon S3 compatibility to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.

Run Minio Gateway for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Please follow this guide to create an account on backblaze.com to obtain your access credentisals for B2 Cloud storage.

Using Docker

docker run -p 9000:9000 --name b2-s3 \
 -e "MINIO_ACCESS_KEY=b2_accound_id" \
 -e "MINIO_SECRET_KEY=b2_application_key" \
 minio/minio:edge gateway b2

Test using Minio Browser

Minio Gateway comes with an embedded web based object browser. Point your web browser to http://127.0.0.1:9000 ensure your server has started successfully.

Test using Minio Client `mc`

mc provides a modern alternative to UNIX commands such as ls, cat, cp, mirror, diff etc. It supports filesystems and Amazon S3 compatible cloud storage services.

Configure `mc`

mc config host add myb2 http://gateway-ip:9000 b2_account_id b2_application_key

List buckets on Backblaze B2

mc ls myb2
[2017-02-22 01:50:43 PST]     0B ferenginar/
[2017-02-26 21:43:51 PST]     0B my-bucket/
[2017-02-26 22:10:11 PST]     0B test-bucket1/

Known limitations

Gateway inherits the following B2 limitations:

No support for CopyObject S3 API (There are no equivalent APIs available on Backblaze B2).
No support for CopyObjectPart S3 API (There are no equivalent APIs available on Backblaze B2).
Only read-only bucket policy supported at bucket level, all other variations will return API Notimplemented error.
DeleteObject() might not delete the object right away on Backblaze B2, so you might see the object immediately after a Delete request.

Other limitations:

Bucket notification APIs are not supported.

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