I’ve recently been looking at automating backups of network devices such as switches, access points and other devices. I recently knocked up a quick batch script to backup Avaya IPOffice phone systems (It’d probably work on the older Lucent ArgentOffice too). Save the following as Backup.bat: @echo off REM ================================================================ REM CONFIGURATION INFO REM ================================================================ […]

As an adovate of Dropbox I’ve been keen to find a simple way to backup by webserver/VPS to Dropbox. With up to 10gB of storage space for free there’s plenty of capacity for me to backup some MySQL databases and webroot. Unfortunately the Linux command line dropbox client doesn’t provide any way to synchronise a […]

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 […]