Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:56:06 -0500 From: Eric Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com> To: Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Best Open Source software to backup Cisco switches and routers Message-ID: <1A6AF87F-2F16-4B9A-855F-CFE68538CFE9@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <462660FD.1000608@calarts.edu> References: <462660FD.1000608@calarts.edu>
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On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:18 PMApr 18, 2007, Sean Murphy wrote: > I am looking to automate the process of backing up my Cisco routers > and switches config files and have come across RANCID. Is this > what I should use on my FreeBSD server or is there something better? > > Thanks I don't know anything about RANCID, but I recently used expect and a shell-script wrapper to do the backups on 3 Cisco routers. I just setup a TFTP server on our backup machine and punched the correct holes in the firewall. There's a command you can run on the router itself to send the config off to a remote system. Additionally, the 'backup' is simply the same output you get when you run a show run command from the router's enable mode. HTH Eric Crist
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