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Restic shows details of a snapshot. Sometimes you want that to be CSV but the json output for paths, excludes and tags are lists which will choke the @csv jq filter. Furthermore not all snapshots have the excludes key. Here are some snippets on solving above. Use join to collapse…

Recording my test with zfsbackup-go. While I am playing around with backup/DR/object storage I also compared the concept here with a previous test around restic/rclone/object storage. In general ZFS snapshot and replication should work much better with file systems containing huge numbers of files. Most solutions struggle with millions of…

If you have trouble deleting an object storage bucket in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure you may have to clear old multipart uploads. The message may look something like this: Bucket named ‘DR-Validation’ has pending multipart uploads. Stop all multipart uploads first. At the time the only way I could do this…

If you use the Linux screen utility a lot for long running jobs etc you may have experienced scrolling issues. The quickest way is to try Control-a and then Escape. You should now be able to use Up/Down keys or even PgUp/PgDn. Press Escape to exit scrolling. In my case…

Sometimes you want to have dynamic array names to simplify code. Below is one way of making the array name dynamic in a loop. And output like this.

If you want to manipulate the output of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI commands you can pipe output through jq. I have examples of jq elsewhere. You can also use the query option like follow. And for good measure also a jq example. Plus csv filter.

Note out of scope here is setting up the services itself. This article is about using a Node application to login to Azure on a client and then being able to use the AWS CLI. Specifically this information applied to a Linux desktop. Setting up the services are documented here:…

I am using Powerline in my terminals and had an issue with the font. After messing with it I realize I was using a font that has not been patched for Powerline. I changed the gnome-terminal font from “Fira Mono Regular”to “DejaVu Sans Mono Book” and it worked. My steps…

This may help someone so I am jotting down an issue I had. On some Linux flavors you may see the Virtualbox Guest additions shared folders not auto mounting on your desktop. I have seen this before but recently this was on Linux Lite for me. The issue is that…