From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 18 23:56:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E4AB16A401 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:56:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC9813C455 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:56:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f31so288569pyh for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:56:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=F+JPzqo/3etQ1/hfxgAp1EN7gJ+RW+YIFI1R6OhR2qWGxon3n+hS51yTCgKpDDAgIGMkN+oe5q7racaAV86jsPSbZCsZIf8b2fiwxVN+n6iKjMS8mM+Z5UkRfRizX1kRu7l+BR3G9q5wrf6UE29Xx1rD/tEUb+ljiwU0yO0uz/w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=MJEraifnn07qUt9EPyQN4aDQJoZz9WDvl6D2DawaPnNorfoWMITyTNaM5s2b84Rbgm4/6bkiTMIbw9Rga8w5mikajLWeYeuUhv1Kbo1aDbQ+k9MA4XpWIhZjQ4KDl9hnIKjDvE8gwQIMA1SQb6ZtVKcDGYgLBdilJmb3SlXF4f0= Received: by 10.65.23.7 with SMTP id a7mr2268212qbj.1176940581076; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.4? ( [209.240.66.157]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 16sm591791nzo.2007.04.18.16.56.15; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:56:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <462660FD.1000608@calarts.edu> References: <462660FD.1000608@calarts.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <1A6AF87F-2F16-4B9A-855F-CFE68538CFE9@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric Crist Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:56:06 -0500 To: Sean Murphy X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List" Subject: Re: Best Open Source software to backup Cisco switches and routers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:56:22 -0000 On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:18 PMApr 18, 2007, Sean Murphy wrote: > I am looking to automate the process of backing up my Cisco routers > and switches config files and have come across RANCID. Is this > what I should use on my FreeBSD server or is there something better? > > Thanks I don't know anything about RANCID, but I recently used expect and a shell-script wrapper to do the backups on 3 Cisco routers. I just setup a TFTP server on our backup machine and punched the correct holes in the firewall. There's a command you can run on the router itself to send the config off to a remote system. Additionally, the 'backup' is simply the same output you get when you run a show run command from the router's enable mode. HTH Eric Crist