B2 bucket empty while containing repository

Hello
I created a new test-repository on B2 within an empty bucket while using the s3 backend. The repository functions correctly. I can restore, backup…
However, I cannot see the repository when browsing the bucket on backblaze.com and also not when using rclone. The Current Size of the bucket also shows 0 B. Does anyone know why this is happening? Is this normal? If so, how do you download the entire repository if one has to?
I appreciate any input!

This is probably a question better asked at B2 support. I mean it might be that someone here knows things about B2 but this is rather the place to ask about restic. Also, there is very little concrete information in your post so it might be difficult to get help that way.

Ok nvm I figured it out. The good news: restic and backblaze both work perfectly and I am the idiot. In all my commands I forgot the “s3:”, so restic created a local repository in the current folder and used that instead of connecting to backblaze.
For example, I wrote:
restic -r s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com/bucketName init
instead of
restic -r s3:s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com/bucketName init
It works perfectly now. Thanks!

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