[35441] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Murphy)
Thu Mar 8 21:00:31 2001
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:43:18 -0600
From: John Murphy <nanog@murfnet.com>
To: Irwin Lazar <ILazar@tbg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Message-ID: <20010308194318.A46493@murfnet.com>
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In-Reply-To: <0C875DC28791D21192CD00104B95BFE70146D71C@BGSLC02>; from ILazar@tbg.com on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:04:29PM -0700
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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
