[34310] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsm)
Fri Feb  2 19:51:51 2001
From: dsm <dugm@tatooine.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:34:47 PST."
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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:44:17 -0800
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In message <20010202163447.X16465@PacHell.Pachell.net>, Ulf Zimmermann writes:
>
>A while back when I was at SGI, I wrote my own scripts, using expect
>and tftp to backup configurations of Cisco routers. Configs then were
>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) ?
>
>What I am trying to archive is at least a daily backup, with again
>some version control to be able what changed between days.
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