Quick Start: Your First Transfer in 5 Minutes

Create your first workflow and use it to transfer files between two storage providers.

• The Blober desktop app, installed
• Credentials for at least one storage provider (see Storage Providers)

1. Open the Blober desktop app.
2. Go to the Workflows page.
3. Click New Workflow.

4. Search for the source provider and select it, for example Local, Google Drive or AWS S3.
5. Enter its credentials if Blober asks for them (the first time you use a provider).
6. Click Browse and select the folder or files you want to transfer.

7. Search for the destination provider and select it, for example AWS S3 or Azure Blob.
8. Enter the destination's credentials.
9. Set the destination path, the folder the files will go into.
10. Optionally, add a path template to sort the files into folders.

11. Select what to do with the files:

    • Copy copies them to the destination and leaves the source unchanged.
    • Move transfers them and then removes them from the source.
    • Delete removes them from the source.

12. Click Save to create the workflow.

1. Go to the Workflows page.
2. Find your workflow in the list.
3. Click Run, the play icon at the top right of the workflow card.
4. Watch the transfer on the Progress page as it runs.

While the transfer runs, the Progress page shows how many files and bytes have transferred and the percentage complete, and the log shows what is happening with each file. Pause stops the transfer for now, Resume continues it from where it left off, and Cancel stops it for good.

This workflow backs up a local Documents folder to AWS S3:

Each file goes into a folder named after the day it was last modified:

my-backup-bucket/documents/2025-01-04/report.pdf
my-backup-bucket/documents/2025-01-03/notes.txt