[c-nsp] IOS archive in addition to RANCID

[Michele Bergonzoni]

Il 10/10/2012 2.52, Ian Henderson wrote:

> * Having two methods ensures that if one method breaks, we still have useful logs/archives. This is particularly nice in our environment

I particularly appreciate this design principle.

Please consider doing a periodic SCP of important files which are 
otherwise not backed up:

  - nvram:ifIndex-table, if you use ifindex persistency
  - flash:env_vars, for switches (as Matt pointed out)
  - flash:vlan.dat, if for some unlikely reason you use VTP

Rancid does a dir, so you can see (grep, etc) there if these files exist 
on your switches.

Also please take the time to try to restore a device from the backup you 
have: everybody can do a backup, but only the brave can actually restore.

Regards,
			Bergonz


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