


The device is ordered via the same web-administration interface through which the cloud storage is managed. Instead of beginning a backup or archive workflow by sending a large quantity of data to a cloud bucket using your WAN connection, use of a transfer device will speed the process up. In this article, we explore how to use Fireball ‘transfer device’ from Backblaze B2, to quickly seed backup or archive data into cloud storage. For previous versions of P5, refer to this article for configuration of the AWS Snowball and this article for configuring P5 for use with a Backblaze Fireball.

Note that this article refers to P5 version 7, released July 2021.
