Debian Sources List Generator VS RANCID

You’re still in PuTTY - open your browser and go to the Debian sources.list generator. Source: over 1 year ago

1) Beware New Shiny Stuff Syndrome Https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian/#Don.27t\_suffer\_from\_Shiny\_New\_Stuff\_Syndrome 2) I assume you want the latest versions of some things and not all. From Stable you can use a) Backports b) Flatpak and Snaps c) SOME Third Party Repositories. Compare Don't Break Debian https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian and some of the Third Party Repositories on e.g.... Source: almost 2 years ago

You have to comment out the cdrom entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and make sure your other entries are correct and then run apt update. I always end up using this for generating sources lists. Source: about 2 years ago

The list looks alright. If you are unsure about if it's only the repos that you need, you can grab from google a fresh offical debian sources.list. Also there is a website, you can generate for debian custom sources.list with and mark which repos you want in the list, you can also mark repos like spotify, signal and more. On this link you can generate your own list: https://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ Just double check... Source: about 3 years ago

Even the generator's selection of third-party repos seem copy-pasted.. (and definitely not by someone who cares about free software). Source: about 3 years ago

A decade ago I worked for a shop that needed to routinely back up 100+ cisco switches and routers and refused to pay for solarwinds. I setup a light weight freebsd vm to run this open source software: https://shrubbery.net/rancid/ (Rancid: Really Awesome New Cisco config Differ) and set it to scrape all the equipment every 12 errors. Source: over 1 year ago

Anyways Rancid does support cvs, svn, and git. Though I have only used it with cvs. Basically what it does, is checks out the configuration, downloads the configuration with other information about the state of the device, commits the configurations(which only changed ones will be in the latest check-ins, and then it can send an email of the changes. Source: almost 2 years ago

RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System), Subversion or Git to maintain history of changes. Source: almost 2 years ago

If you want to use this as an opportunity to learn Ansible, or you don't want to add another tool to the stack, this is a fine use case. Otherwise, I would consider using either RANCID or Oxidized for configuration backup. Source: about 2 years ago

Before I knew about RANCiD (https://shrubbery.net/rancid), I wrote my own Perl application to telnet into a Foundry Networks switch and TFTP its configuration to my computer so I could back it up. At a future employer, I rewrote another coworkers Perl application that collected SNMP values from devices and did stuff with it (forget what all I did then). Source: about 2 years ago