Adding Additional Computers

[lance1]

I can’t find enough explanation in the docs about how to add additional computers. I got this far setting-up a second computer to use B2 storage, now I’m lost:

[gchen]

The storage name is used only locally – that is, when you back up from one computer to multiple storages each storage should have a unique name. It doesn’t need to be the same as the original storage name when you added that storage on the first computer, but to avoid confusion it is recommended to use the same storage name on all computers.

The password is the storage encryption password, the one you entered during the storage configuration on this page:

[Christoph]

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