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Manual: Add note about s3 bucket locations

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Alexander Neumann 2016-11-27 20:18:57 +01:00
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@ -457,18 +457,20 @@ $ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<MY_ACCESS_KEY>
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<MY_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>
```
You can then easily initialize a repository that uses your Amazon S3 as a backend.
You can then easily initialize a repository that uses your Amazon S3 as a backend, if the bucket does not exist yet it will be created in the default location:
```console
$ restic -r s3:eu-central-1/bucket_name init
$ restic -r s3:s3.amazonaws.com/bucket_name init
enter password for new backend:
enter password again:
created restic backend eefee03bbd at s3:eu-central-1/bucket_name
created restic backend eefee03bbd at s3:s3.amazonaws.com/bucket_name
Please note that knowledge of your password is required to access the repository.
Losing your password means that your data is irrecoverably lost.
```
Fro an s3-compatible server that is not Amazon (like Minio, see below), or is
It is not possible at the moment to have restic create a new bucket in a different location, so you need to create it using a different program. Afterwards, the S3 server (`s3.amazonaws.com`) will redirect restic to the correct endpoint.
For an S3-compatible server that is not Amazon (like Minio, see below), or is
only available via HTTP, you can specify the URL to the server like this:
`s3:http://server:port/bucket_name`.