[34311] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fumerola)
Fri Feb 2 19:57:58 2001
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:53:44 -0600
From: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>
To: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Message-ID: <20010202185344.T57121@elvis.mu.org>
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In-Reply-To: <20010202163447.X16465@PacHell.Pachell.net>; from ulf@Alameda.net on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:34:47PM -0800
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:34:47PM -0800, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
>
> 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.
You're describing http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/.
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Bill Fumerola / billf@FreeBSD.org
