I spent some time earlier automating the backups of our appliance configuration to a restricted network share and thought I’d share a simple batch script to backup the configuration from multiple Juniper Netscreen (ScreenOS) firewalls. @echo off REM ================================================================ REM CONFIGURATION INFO REM ================================================================ set USERNAME=backupAccount set PASSWORD=superSecretPassword set CFGFILE=BackupList.txt set DESTDIR=C:\Backups\ REM ================================================================ REM [...]

For the last 3 years I’ve had a Buffalo Terastation (HD-HTGL) at home storing photos from my Nikon D200 SLR, my music collection, films, documents and so on. I’d configured it with RAID5 which left me with just under 750Gb storage capacity. This meant that if one drive failed it’d continue on with degraded functionality. [...]