The Oracle Data Transfer service is a offline data transfer method to migrate data to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. A transfer service is useful, when your network bandwidth and connection is not sufficient to upload your migration data in a meaningful time. Oracle offers two methods: The disk-based data transfer and the appliance-based data transfer. The service is no only one-way, data can also be exported in an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center and shipped to your data center. According one of my Company Trivadis’ cultural value called curiosity, I was wondering how this service works. This is the story of a tiny USB Hard Disk Drive full of data, which was going on a long journey from Kestenholz /…
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic Object Storage – Cleanup Day with FTM CLI
Yesterday I decided to cleanup old Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic objects. There were a lot of files lying around in the Object Storage of a project from 2018. Cleaning up these files in the OCI console was no option, they can only be deleted one by one. And with over 1500 files, a bad idea. During the search for an option for Object Storage mass deletion, I found this tool: ftmcli – Object Storage Classic File Transfer Manager. The MOS note contains the script and a short manual how to use. It’s a Java based script, a perfect match for my Windows Subsytem for Linux (Ubuntu), which I often use for OCI actions. OAC-Classic : How To Delete A Storage…
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