Couple of things here. I wanted to do some restic scripts but at the same time use a configuration file. The restic developers is working on this functionality for restic and possibly using TOML. Meanwhile I was trying json since I can definitely use bash/json for other applications. And as…
Bash array json restic snapshots and jq
As you know bash is not ideal with multi arrays. Frequently I find myself wanting to read something like json into bash and loop over it. There are many ways to do this including readarray etc. I found this to work best for me. Note json can have lists so…
Restic snapshot detail json to csv
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…
zfsbackup-go test with minio server
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…
OCI Bucket Delete Fail
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…
Linux Screen Utility Buffer Scrolling
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…
Bash Array Dynamic Name
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.
OCI Cli Query
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.
Azure AD SSO Login to AWS CLI
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:…
Powerline Font Issue
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…