RE: How to automate IOS/Config backup

From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2007 - 20:38:25 ART


That would be pretty funny!

Leave all these weird tcl scripts and kron jobs on the routers, that somehow
remain in flash and get started for the next candidate to come along!
LOL

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Brian Dennis
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:32 PM
To: Nick Matthews; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: How to automate IOS/Config backup

> On another note, can anyone see a reason why using these kron commands to
> write the config every 5 minutes in the lab would interfere or otherwise
> cause problems?

You would be over complicating the lab. The logic is that you save your
configurations after each task. If you do this there isn't a need to
configure kron to do it for you every 5 minutes.

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>----- Original Message -----
Subject: Re: How to automate IOS/Config backup
Date: Wed, August 29, 2007 16:27
From: "Nick Matthews" <matthn@gmail.com>

> This link may help:
>
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios124/124cg/hnm_c/
ch30/hg_kron.htm
>
>
> On another note, can anyone see a reason why using these kron commands to
> write the config every 5 minutes in the lab would interfere or otherwise
> cause problems?
>
>
> On 8/29/07, Mohammad Saeed <mzsaeed@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Group,
> >
> > Can any one point me to the document/link or tell me if there is any
> > way that we can configure router/switch to upload its running/startup
> > config and IOS in the flash to a particular TFTP server automatically
> > at some particular time like say for example end of month every
> > month????
> >
> > Any help is highly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mohammad Zahed Saeed
> >
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