Questions tagged [google-cloud]
For questions relating to the Google Cloud Platform.
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How to handle Duplicity not being able to do backups to Google Cloud Storage bucket because bucket contains aborted backup
I have setup a Google Cloud Storage bucket for my Duplicity backups. The bucket has a retention policy of 1 year. Today Duplicity got interrupted while doing the backups, and now, every time I want to ...
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FreeBSD Jails with Google cloud
I tried searching the title on SO but nothing turned up. This is my first question so I apologize if I am doing something wrong.
My idea is to have jails serve my websites on google cloud instead of ...
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Will Duplicity download anything from the destination when doing a `remove-all-but-n-full`?
I'm using Google Cloud Storage to store backups taken by Duplicity. Since I just want to keep 4 full backups at the destination I run:
duplicity remove-all-but-n-full 4 --force \
--s3-endpoint-url=...
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SSL status: PROVISIONING for more then 2 hours
I've created certificate, but it's status: PROVISIONING for more than 2 hours.
gcloud compute ssl-certificates describe mcrt-94a7195a-ffff-ffff-ffff-fb16fda2bf5f
creationTimestamp: '2025-02-24T03:17:...
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Cannot install Nvidia Drivers on Debian VM with secure boot enabled
I'm working with a Debian 11 VM with secure boot enable on Google Cloud.
When I add a GPU to the machine, I get the following prompt:
This VM requires Nvidia drivers to function correctly.
Would you ...
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What is the meaning of having a username as the last field of an `/etc/passwd` entry?
In Google Compute Engine VM in /etc/passwd file i see an entry like this one:
root:x:0:0:root:/root:my_logged_in_username_here.
What could that mean? The last field is for user command interpreter as ...
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How can I find the human readable name for a CPU? [duplicate]
I need to know the name of the CPU used in a GKE cluster I have launched. The gcloud command has a --min-cpu-platform option, but my understanding is that is the minimum and I may get a later CPU ...
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For Google Cloud's debian repository, which distribution corresponds to Debian Testing (currently, Trixie)?
On Debian Testing (currently called Trixie), I would like to install the google-cloud-cli and google-cloud-sdk-gke-gcloud-auth-plugin packages that Google Cloud offers through its debian (package ...
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GCP /dev/sda1/ Disk Space Full, Shows 90% In Use, but Mounting SDA1 only showing 6GB. What is using all my space?
I'm running Wordpress instance on top of a Linux GCP VM instance. In SSH, running cmd 'df -h' I see /dev/sda1 is 91% used up. I mounted sda1 to see what could be taking up all the space, but ...
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I try to copy a file from a GCP instance to my local machine, but powershell gives me a "Permission denied: (publickey)"
I created a GCP instance, and I created a private and public key on kali linux, I saved this key in the metadata of GCP, so I can access the instance through my kali machine. Then, I need to copy a ...
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Google Cloud does not like my Customer-supplied encryption key (CSEK)
I'm trying to encrypt a VM image with my own provided key.
So I go to my Terminal emulator and do:
$ openssl enc -aes256 -A -P
enter aes-256-cbc encryption password:
Verifying - ...
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Why would Linux Docker fail downloading files from private gcr.io?
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So... I have tested many different commands and it all works great except
docker pull gcr.io/...
which always says I don't have enough permissions:
ERROR: unauthorized: You don't have the ...
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Link home directory to filestore
I have two GCE instance (RHEL8) and a common file store mounted as /filestore on both instance.
How can we link the existing /home to /filestore/home as shared storage for users home directory.
Note: ...
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How to fully copy linux instance to another machine
I have a remote google cloud instance which runs Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye), and I would like to create not nessesarily a copy of it, but rather I would like to copy everything that is installed ...
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Cannot write to file in linux environment
I am using GCP Linux virtual machine and trying to execute a file and write the results into a new file. The code looks like this:
./segment.sh inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt
However when I do ...
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