Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ?

Fri Mar 9 01:43:18 UTC 2001

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:04:29PM -0700, Irwin Lazar wrote:
> 
> > put into rcs. Now before I am resurecting those scripts again for my
> > current job, what are people using to backup equipment, things such
> > as Cisco routers (26xx, 36xx, 72xx, 75xx, MSFC, RSM) and Cisco Catalyst
> > switches (2924XL, 3548XL, 4000, 5000, 6500) ?
> 
> I use a small program called disco that sends an SNMP write request to
> the router to initiate a 'write net' then receives the file via tftp.
> It's available at http://web.mit.edu/ktools/ and works for at least
> linux and solaris.
> 
> ---
> I've seen lots of homegrown scripts like the above.  A lot of our customers
> use element managers such as CiscoWorks.  The nice thing about the element
> managers is that they will flag any changes that might have been made and
> not recorded.
> 
> Irwin
>
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rancid to flag any changes made, disco to pull the configs nightly.  All running on FreeBSD.  

 
John