Backing up the Infrastructure Configs

If you are anything like me, you tend to forget about protecting the very fabric that ties everything together for your environment, the infrastructure components: firewalls, routers, switches, etc. To some extent this is understandable as these devices have become extremely reliable and, in most organizations, there is not the same degree of change within the infrastructure space as other areas. Even if you can understand it, the underlying fact is that when the infrastructure has a problem, everyone has a problem.
Luckily, most of the infrastructure devices in the industry are still using text configuration files to control their hardware. This coupled with the relatively low degree of change makes infrastructure backups a relatively simple task.