[c-nsp] IOS archive in addition to RANCID

[heasley]

Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:16:09AM +0100, Phil Mayers:
> > * With a sizeable RANCID installation, collection interval needs to
> > be pushed out to 4 hours plus, which means we could miss changes
> > within the interval.
> 
> Really? We use a home-grown system for this, and back up >1200 devices 
> every hour. I'm confident we could go faster. How sizeable does an 
> install have to be for RANCID to be this slow? Does it do devices in 
> series or something?

at one time we polled 700+ devices hourly on an 450mhz*2 ultrasparc2.
clearly, he has configuration issues.