getCredentials error?

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Hi everyone,

New restic user here with technical background. I’m trying to use restic with a BackBlaze B2 bucket to back up a Windows machine.
As recommended in the docs I’m trying to use the S3 compatible API. I believe I’ve been following the instructions in the restic and backblaze documentation correctly, but I get an error output when trying to initialize a repository. The bucket was created a day ago, fyi.

I’ve set (values redacted)
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=[applicationKey]
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=[keyID]

Command and output was:
restic -r s3:s3.us-west-004.backblazeb2.com/[bucket]/ init
enter password for new repository:
enter password again:
Fatal: create repository at s3:s3.us-west-004.backblazeb2.com/[bucket]/ failed: Fatal: unable to open repository at s3:s3.us-west-004.backblazeb2.com/[bucket]/: open: s3.getCredentials: no credentials found. Use -o s3.unsafe-anonymous-auth=true for anonymous authentication

I’ve searched the webs and this forum but haven’t seen it mentioned.

Restic version: restic 0.17.0 compiled with go1.22.5 on windows/amd64
I installed restic with Scoop yesterday.

Could someone please nudge me in the right direction?

Thanks!

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Apparently the environment variables were not passed correctly to restic (the variable names are correct). How, exactly did you set those variables and how do you run restic (cmd/powershell/…)?