That's a good theory, and indeed part of the solution, but in practice, people are fallible, and will fail to keep the script updated.
So, what's needed is a script to read the current configuration and produce output that can be fed back into (another|this) script to recreate the site on a new machine. I'm thinking it might be a good project for me to learn some 1337 powershell skllz. Kurt On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 15:11, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]> wrote: > So you know the passwords, you know the config, you set the perms, so why not > simply > keep a powershell script of all the account creation etc updated. It sounds > like like its fairly > repetitive and you could simply loop through all the user/directory creation, > apply acl's etc from > the list of users. > > Server breaks, you redeploy and execute a continuously updated script. > Powershell has > some IIS extensions (although I have never done explicit ftp work with it)... > > I really don't see it needing to be more complex than this? > > ________________________________________ > From: Kurt Buff [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 2:12 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: FTP site configuration backups > > I believe I have a slightly different situation than what you're > describing, but I could be wrong, so correct me if I am. > > On this server, the FTP users are accounts in the local accounts base > - we chose to do that so that vendors/partners would each have a > protected directory with exclusive access to it. That would place the > names and accounts in the SAM database, correct? > > Regardless, this would require poking holes in the firewall that > aren't already there, which I'm reluctant to do. > > Thanks, > > Kurt > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
