[35435] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Irwin Lazar)
Thu Mar 8 19:50:46 2001
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From: Irwin Lazar <ILazar@tbg.com>
To: "'James M. Kretchmar'" <kretch@MIT.EDU>, ulf@Alameda.net
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:04:29 -0700
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> 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.
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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
