backing up multiple fwsm contexts

pallette — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:24:02 GMT

Wanted to get some feedback on general practices of backing up multiple contexts on fwsm's in an enterprise / service provider environment. TFTP / FTP / Ciscoworks and/or other software available. Pro's / Con's are welcomed feedback as well

Thanks

Re: backing up multiple fwsm contexts

vvarakan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:24:11 GMT

You can use a simple Expect script to backup all the configurations using either FTP/TFTP. Cisco Security Manager (CSM) automatically does configuration management if used.

Logic of the scripts could loosely be

a) Login into the admin context/switch

b) Save all the configs "wr mem all"

c) Get a list of all the configuration files, either "dir flash:" or "show run | inc disk:" would give you the file names.

d) Parse the output from above and backup using the following syntax

SSystem Configuration:

copy /noconfirm running-config tftp://x.x.x.x/backup-running-config

Context Configuration: Repeat the command for each context configuration file

copy /noconfirm disk:$Context_file.cfg tftp://x.x.x.x/$Context_file.cfg

disk:$Context_file.cfg

FTP syntax:

copy disk:[path/]filename ftp://[user[:password]@]server[/path]/filename

TFTP may not be good for large config files and FTP would be a good alternative.

Hope this helps !

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