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Marta VS RANCID

Compare Marta VS RANCID and see what are their differences

Marta logo Marta

File Manager for macOS. Native. Extensible. Fast.

RANCID logo RANCID

RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ.
  • Marta Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-07-24
  • RANCID Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-04-08

Marta videos

Barstool Pizza Review - Marta With Special Guest Nick Cannon

More videos:

  • Review - Marta review
  • Review - Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta? (2020) Netflix Documentary Series Review

RANCID videos

Puppet Perspectives - Rancid "Troublemaker" Album Review (feat. Dan)

More videos:

  • Review - Rancid Life Won't Wait Album Review
  • Review - Review: Rancid “Trouble Maker”

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Marta and RANCID)
File Manager
100 100%
0% 0
Network Automation
0 0%
100% 100
FTP Client
100 100%
0% 0
Configuration Auditing
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, RANCID should be more popular than Marta. It has been mentiond 9 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Marta mentions (3)

RANCID mentions (9)

  • Cisco switch backup/restore?
    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
  • Version control for network configs
    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
  • Management Software for Cisco Devices?
    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
  • What all are you doing with Ansible?
    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
  • Starting with python at 30
    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
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Marta and RANCID, you can also consider the following products

fman - An unexpected gift. January 07, 2018 by Michael. One of the nice things that happened last week was an fman user writing in to say that 1) fman "is THE BEST SOFTWARE" (sic). And that 2) he would like to send me a $50 tip.

Unimus - Unimus is a Network Automation and Configuration management (NCM) solution designed for fast deployment network-wide and ease of use. Unimus does not require learning any abstraction or templating languages, and does not require any coding skills.

Neat – File Manager - Neat gives you an open-ended file manager in the cloud: integrate Google Drive, GitHub, and Slack to visualize your assets in one canvas.

Oxidized - configuration backup software (IOS, JunOS) - silly attempt at rancid

cryo - A visual file manager

GenieACS - A fast and lightweight TR-069 Auto Configuration Server (ACS)