Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Using Spark for my routers and switches config backup
Using Spark for my routers and switches config backup
Not the most innovative idea in the world, but it works for me. In my home and lab there are quite a number of routers and switches. This is what Ive configured on the devices to periodically upload the config to the FTP server
ip ftp source-interface
ip ftp username nms
ip ftp password nms
file prompt quiet
!
kron policy-list backup
cli copy running-config ftp://10.1.5.98
!
kron occurrence daily-backup at 0:30 recurring
policy-list backup
There is another script running on my Linux host to post these config files to Spark using the Spark Message API. Good thing for Spark is it is persistent, and I can store the config files there as long as I want.
I do it for my development source code too, similar concept.
A script will be executed every night using the linux box cron job to get this done. Or do it manually, by asking my chatbot to do it.
