Rancid email setup

Notes This documentation is accurate as of April 6, These steps have been performed on Ubuntu Prerequisites It's generally a good idea to start with a healthy, fully functioning, up-to-date system. This means that some combination of sudo apt-get update , sudo apt-get upgrade , sudo apt-get dist-upgrade , and sudo apt-get autoremove should have been recently run.

Please understand what the commands do before blindly running them as any system update has the potential to render a system inoperable.

Groups can be based on any criteria you wish. So if you've got one physical location you could create "router", "firewall", and "switch" groups, or, in larger environments with multiple physical locations, group names such as "Los Angeles", "San Francisco", and "New York" may be a better choice.

For this example we'll create groups based on the geographical location of devices. So let's create a group for each of these locations. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account. Disagree Agree. Notify of. Inline Feedbacks. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Kindly subscribe to TechDirectArchive. Telegram Channel. This is default text for notification bar.

Learn more. Then create a group, and a user rancid , and place that user in the group we created. Then set the ownership and and permissions on the rancid files and directories. Next you need to edit the main Rancid configuration file;.

Uncomment and add your groups, i. We do this to create the folder structure for the groups we just created. Most importantly this creates the router. This file specifies what the devices are, and where they are, that you will be backing up. If it complains, type it out manually!

Scroll down to the [csvdb] section, then uncomment and change the values shown above, so that look like. You should alway use rancid instead. Thanks for this post. I installed it in VMWare workstation