Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ?

James M. Kretchmar kretch at MIT.EDU
Thu Mar 8 23:45:00 UTC 2001


> 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.

kretch




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