SystemRescueCd Reviews

RANCID Reviews

SystemRescueCd mentions (8)

• Fucked up the boot, how do I fix my computer? (linux mint 20.3)

  I like the system-rescue.org live USB including the gparted already installed. Source: about 1 year ago

• I borked my boot partitions. Any idea how/if I can fix?

  For a universal live USB try system-rescue.org. This is my favorite and can do practically anything. Source: about 1 year ago

• Trustworthy hard drive (yes, HDD) recovery?

  My wife's hard drive (Windows) had a critical failure. I'm recovering some of its content using my limited understanding of the tools at system-rescue.org. But it's mostly beyond me and can't risk just experimenting. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to make rescue/recovery partition that copies into RAM (live cd)?

  Basically just want to achieve this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd-boot#Grml_on_ESP But based on Archlinux (more like systemrescue). Source: over 2 years ago

• Live CD File recovery

  System Rescue should have Apple file system support in place. Source: over 2 years ago

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: over 2 years ago