Why can't I sync to B2 encrypted?

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I’m trying to sync to Backblaze B2 with encryption. I’m using 1.36 on Linux. I can sync without encryption, but the problem comes in when I try using encryption.

First I created a bucket on B2 using the web interface. However when I tried reading the listing (rclone lsd B2:) it didn’t display it, because the bucket name wasn’t encrypted. So I figured out what the directory name should be in the encrypted format…so now I have this seemingly random string of letters, so I renamed the bucket to it, and did a “lsd” and there it is, the unencrypted name. Let’s say the unencrypted bucketname is “bucket”.

But I can’t use it. If I try “rclone sync /dirname B2:bucket” it responds with:

2017/05/14 20:46:12 ERROR : Attempt 1/3 failed with 1 errors and: failed to create bucket: bucketName is required (400 bad_json)
2017/05/14 20:46:12 ERROR : Attempt 2/3 failed with 1 errors and: failed to create bucket: bucketName is required (400 bad_json)
2017/05/14 20:46:13 ERROR : Attempt 3/3 failed with 1 errors and: failed to create bucket: bucketName is required (400 bad_json)
2017/05/14 20:46:13 Failed to sync: failed to create bucket: bucketName is required (400 bad_json)

I’ve tried every variation of the command I can think of. This works just with with Amazon Cloud Drive. What am I doing wrong?

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Does anyone have examples of how they set up B2 with encryption? I can sync files to the B2 remote that isn’t encrypted, but nothing works with the crypt remote.

For the record, I have successfully configured ACD crypt so I know it can be done.

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You need to use b2:bucket as your remote - https://rclone.org/crypt/

Note that unless you want encrypted bucket names (which are difficult to manage because you won’t know what directory they represent in web interfaces etc), you should probably specify a bucket, eg remote:secretbucket when using bucket based remotes such as S3, Swift, Hubic, B2, GCS.

That should help!

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Ahh, ok, I did have it that way previously, but then got this error, as I do now:

rclone sync -v /directory B2:
2017/05/17 09:10:58 INFO : Encrypted B2 bucket (redacted bucketname): Modify window is 1ms
2017/05/17 09:11:00 ERROR : (redacted filename) : Failed to copy: invalid character ‘<’ looking for beginning of value
2017/05/17 09:11:00 ERROR : (redacted filename): Failed to copy: invalid character ‘<’ looking for beginning of value
2017/05/17 09:11:01 ERROR : (redacted filename): Failed to copy: invalid character ‘<’ looking for beginning of value

Not finding any info by searching the forum or the web…any help appreciated.

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Does your bucket name meet the requirements?

If it does you’ll need to post some log with -vv which might have some clues.

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Yay! It’s working.

The bucketname was ok as I created it on Backblaze’s website and it wouldn’t let me call it something disallowed. The problem was a combination of the crypt remote config, and my employer’s firewall was causing the last error I posted. Good now.

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