[jonny_storm]

I used to back up my friend's website over FTP to a git repo. He often would break something and have no way to know what broke or how to fix it.

I frequently set up automatic backups of network appliance configurations, route tables, and traceroute results. This is useful for diagnosing sudden problems, as well as taking before and after snapshots when making changes.

I collect interesting data, such as kernel version and versions of various services, from hosted web servers my clients run.

I collect data at regular intervals when investigating a sporadic, chronic trouble event to help me identify correlations and test hypotheses.

I collect BGP and traceroute data at regular intervals from route servers to identify important changes and trends in Internet routing for specific prefixes.

I used to collect IDS signatures in a git repo to track updates, but I eventually moved this to GitLab.

I regularly run a watchdog script to check for, alert on, and attempt to mitigate low disk space and other such conditions.

Hope this helps!