Winclone VS RANCID

If you were not using WinClone or an alternative means of backing up the Boot Camp partition, the only thing you can do to try and access the data involves Paragon NTFS. Once the data is safe then you can remove and recreate the Boot Camp partition. Source: 5 months ago

Consider using WinClone to duplicate your Windows partition. Source: about 1 year ago

You may be able to use WinClone but maybe not. I have used it twice now to resize the Boot Camp partition on two systems without having to wait through a full Windows reinstall. Source: over 1 year ago

The last time I did anything with Boot Camp (it’s been a few years now) I used this software to make a disk image and I was able to skip having to reinstall Windows or re-enter the serial key. Once the image has been created, you get rid of the Boot Camp partition, recreate it, and then use the same software to imprint the image onto the larger partition. Source: over 2 years ago

The only supported way of increasing or decreasing the storage allocated to the Boot Camp partition is to delete and recreate it using Boot Camp Assistant. Utilities such as Winclone mitigate the amount of work involved by removing the need to reinstall Windows, and just allowing you to restore a compressed disk image. 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