Archive for September 2009

Near-line Data Backups With RDiff-Backup

Posted on September 21, 2009, 2:56 am, by Jeremy Pavlov, under intermediate, rdiff-backup.

Backups are great.  Yes, I’m that guy that loves backups.  Of course everyone uses an off-line, off-site backup system like JungleDisk, right?  Or if you’re lucky enough to have your own personal cloud, then you’ve got that covered from that angle… But what about near-line backups, where you can rapidly restore data (like in the [...]

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How to automate scripted commands to a Cisco ASA via ssh

Posted on September 7, 2009, 2:26 am, by Jeremy Pavlov, under advanced, asa, centOS, ssh.

The premise *seemed* simple enough…  I just needed to send 4 or 5 commands to a Cisco ASA from a CentOS box in a cron job.  I mean, people write scripts all the time, and use ssh keys to automate those scripts against remote systems, right?  I do it all the time with Linux boxes, [...]

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