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To conclude the backup mania for this week, I decided that it would be worthwhile to create a star�ng snapshot of my pCloud drive on B2.

How to: Backup pCloud Cloud-to-Cloud (To B2)

I had to do this somewhat manually because my usual go-to solu�ons

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for cloud-to-cloud backups weren’t able to offer much help for this par�cular use-case. Namely:

Multcloud does not support Backblaze B2 as a storage archive. Rclone (at the �me of wri�ng) isn’t able to authen�cate a pCloud app protected by 2FA (I raised the issue with the team on their GitHub repository today).

Of course, I could have copied pCloud onto my local and then pushed that up to the cloud via rclone (or used Goodsync), but both these approaches would have entailed a�emp�ng to upload gigabytes’ worth of data over a 2 Mbps uplink.

So — like the Takeout approach I demonstrated a couple of days ago — I chose to improve.

Here’s what did the trick.

1. Bundle Your pCloud Files Into an Archive

Firstly, I used the web UI to bundle my pCloud files into an archive for downloading.

To do this, I selected all the folders at the root level.

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Then, I clicked on ‘Share Download Link.

And I gave the link a name:

If you loose track of it, you can find all generated download links under ‘Shares’:

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Copying the link into a browser, I clicked on ‘Download’ and opted for ‘Download as ZIP’:

The download began:

I went into my download manager and copied the unique download URL. Note: if you just a�empt to download the archive directly without sharing the URL will not be unique — and it will not download your file!

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The URL is forma�ed like this:

The ‘code’ component contains a unique download string.

I started up my EC2 instance and simply ran a ‘wget’ command to download the archive on the remote:

1. wget https://api.pcloud.com/getpubzip?code=24242424

The download didn’t have a file format, so I renamed it backup080520.zip.

The command is simply

1. mv getpubzip?code=2424kj3gg2g backup080520.zip

To verify that what I downloaded was really the archive I unzipped it, verified that the contents were what I was expec�ng, and then deleted

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the extracted files.

Then I simply used a simple rclone sync command to push the backup up to B2.

1. rclone sync backup080520.zip B2:/pcloudbackups

With an uploaded speed of over 800 Mbps I pushed my archive up in a couple of minutes over the wire (versus what would have taken days from my home connec�on).

And that’s it!

Don’t forget to delete the backup file on the EC2 machine when you’re done (and stop it unless you have a need to keep it running) in order to avoid accruing storage costs (and because there’s no reason to keep it).

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