Using Oracle GI 19c to Provide Highly-Available NFS Services
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Using Oracle GI 19c to Provide Highly-Available NFS Services

Introduction Since Oracle GI version 11.2.0.3, Oracle have provided a clustered file-system called ACFS, based on the underlined technology Oracle ASM. This technology has provided a reliable-enough, although not free from bugs, clustered file-system, while Oracle OCFS2 (which had its own cluster framework: O2CB) has been abandoned and left to die. ACFS was a good-enough…

An excellent alternative to ‘rsync’ for backups to cloud
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An excellent alternative to ‘rsync’ for backups to cloud

I have been using NextCloud for a long while now. It is a smart solution, and although I do not like its agent (I’ve had many problems with it around Hebrew file names on multiple types of operating systems, which never matured enough for a full bug description and details) – for an easy access…

RedHat/OEL 8 self-repo “package is filtered out by modular filtering”

RedHat/OEL 8 self-repo “package is filtered out by modular filtering”

RedHat introduced using modules in DNF on RHEL version 8 (and above). This opens very interesting new options, however, sometimes – a quick-n-dirty repo is needed. An example – for offline systems, a repo of already installed packages (on exactly similar system) is created for later use. This used to work well on RHEL version…