Victoriametrics: vmbackup: example of credentials file for Minio

[thedje]

Hello,
I want to use vmbackup with Minio.
I have the key access and the key secret.
However, I don't know how to fill them in a credential file.
Do you have any examples?

Thank you

[valyala]

@glebsam , could you provide the requested examples to @thedje as an author of 15b7406f7bf4af8433a561896a9420f92b3e548d ?

[valyala]

@glebsam , it would be great to add these examples into a dedicated section of vmbackup docs.

[ThomasADavis]

After lots of searching, and realizing the URL given in the command line help does not point you to a working S3 configuration file, let alone explain how to get it work with minio..

Here's how to do it.

1) create the ~/.aws directory
2) create a file called 'credentials'
3) in that file, contents are:

[default]
aws_access_key_id=theaccesskey
aws_secret_access_key=thesecretaccesskeyvalue

You may also need a config file, in the ~/.aws/config, put:

[default]
region=us-west-2
output=json

Now, when you run the vmbackup_prod, if you put the credentials/config file in ~/.aws, you simply use -customS3Endpoint 'http://your.min.io:port_address", ie: http://192.168.86.50:9000, and tell it to use '-dst=s3:/bucket/directory/ else, you will need to tell vmbackup-prod where the credential/config file is.

this came from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-files.html

[f41gh7]

@ThomasADavis thanks!

I've also want to mention, that it's possible to use credentials from env variables:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY

[valyala]

FYI, vmbackup docs now have information about this case.

[thedje]

Hi,
Thank you for your contributions

[glebsam]

Sorry for late response. Yep, current documentation reflects exactly how to use options -credsFilePath and -customS3Endpoint. I personally used to use them to backup VM database in Minio.

[valyala]

@glebsam , thanks for the update! Then closing the issue as resolved.