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Google Backup and Sync the Glacial Copy Program
So I had 250GB of data to upload to Google G Suite. Some ~200GB is Pictures the other is a mix of Documents and an assortment of Macbook home directory detritus. So I wanted to upload the photos and get them to automatically appear in Google Photos. Google Backup and...
Insync on Ubuntu 18.04
I had some small issues getting the insync client running on a fresh (defaults install) of Ubuntu 18.04 to install insync-nautilus Unfortunately the standard Ubuntu 18.04 deb package doesn't add a list file for the insync repo so you can't enable nautilus integration...
AWS CLI S3 Download of Mac Files to Windows Causes Failures
I have recently needed to upload several hundred GB of files from a Macbook Pro Laptop to S3, then download the S3 Files into 4GB t2.medium Windows 2016 Server EC2 instance so I could use Google Backup and Sync to upload the pictures and docs to a GSuite account. This...
aws cli – can’t encode character ‘\uxxx’ surrogates not allowed
If you get the above when trying to do an aws s3 sync then check your LANG settings... for some reason inside a docker container I had no LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 set and so the aws cli could not encode the romantic little love hearts and weird characters that people embed in...
Run a docker container command from synology crontab
Use the information here to edit the /etc/crontab and then restart with synoservice -restart crond http://www.multigesture.net/articles/how-to-use-cron-on-a-synology-nas/ # /etc/crontab every 2 hrs at 15 minutes past 15 */2 * * * root...
Call to undefined function opcache_reset()
Got this error message 2018/03/13 22:12:41 [error] 17149#0: *7057 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function opcache_reset() in /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/opcache/opcache.php:72 And then created a file...