MinIO

Run MinIO

One process, one data directory. Docker is the quickest way on any machine; the binary works on Linux directly.

1. Pick a data directory on the disk that will hold the backups, for example /srv/minio.
2. Docker: docker run -d --name minio -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 -v /srv/minio:/data -e MINIO_ROOT_USER=admin -e MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=a-long-password minio/minio server /data --console-address ":9001"
3. Binary: download minio for your platform, then run: minio server /srv/minio --console-address ":9001" with the same two environment variables set.
4. Port 9000 is the S3 API SimDrive talks to; 9001 is the web console.

Recent community builds of MinIO have cut the console back to bucket browsing, and may not ship prebuilt binaries. If a menu below is missing, the mc command-line tool does the same job: mc alias set local http://server:9000 admin a-long-password, then mc mb local/backups and mc admin user add local simdrive a-secret-key.

Create a bucket

1. Open http://your-server:9001 and sign in with the root user and password.
2. Buckets → Create Bucket. Name it, for example "backups", and create it.
3. Or from the command line: mc mb local/backups.

Create an access key

Do not give SimDrive the root password. A user with a policy for the bucket is a key you can revoke without touching anything else.

1. Identity → Users → Create User. Name it "simdrive", set a password (this becomes the secret key), and assign the readwrite policy — or a policy you write that names only the bucket.
2. Or: Access Keys → Create access key, which makes a key pair under the signed-in user; copy the Access Key and Secret Key when they are shown.
3. Command line: mc admin user add local simdrive a-secret-key, then mc admin policy attach local readwrite --user simdrive.

Reach it from outside the LAN, if you need to

1. On a home or office network, http://server-name:9000 is fine as it is.
2. From anywhere else, do not open port 9000 to the internet. Use a VPN (Tailscale is the least effort), or put a reverse proxy with a certificate in front — Caddy issues one automatically — and give SimDrive the https:// address.

Enter it in SimDrive

1. Settings → Storage → Connect storage → MinIO.
2. Endpoint: http://your-server:9000, or the https:// address of your proxy.
3. Access key and Secret key: the user's name and password, or the key pair you created.
4. Path-style addressing is already set for MinIO; a bare address cannot carry the bucket in the hostname.
5. Click Connect, then Choose folders to back up.