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 STOP CHANGING HERE OR YOU’LL BREAK SOMETHING
REM ================================================================
SET TIMESTAMP=%date:~-4,4%.%date:~-7,2%.%date:~-10,2%
for /F [...]

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.
I’d [...]