RipMe VS RANCID

Some threads on /r/DataHoarder here seem to recommend RipMe though, so that could help you out. Source: about 2 years ago

You can use RipMe to rip all media from this sub with the following command. Source: about 2 years ago

There's a tool called ripme that has a graphical interface (if that's something you're into) and works for multiple sites. I use it to download entire subreddits pretty often, it's nice since it nests albums into folders. Source: over 2 years ago

I use a java program called ripme to rip imgur and flickr albums to my home server. Sometimes I need to do it via mobile, up until recently I had a full windows VM running that I could RDP into and use it there but I've ditched that and now I'm looking for a Docker solution. As a backup I can stick it in a container and ssh in and use it via CLI, but if I can get the gui running that would be ideal. Source: over 2 years ago

RipMe is my preferred tool. Also supports imgur, GFY, and other popular image/video hosting sites. Jdownloader 2 works as well, but may be overkill for this purpose. Source: almost 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