ASA and uploading with SCP

[nikolaj.joeker]

I have a bunch of ASA's which I want to backup.

My goal is to use the "backup" command with a SCP location:

"backup /noconfirm location scp://<username>:<password>@<SCP-server-IP>/"

The backup is performed, and a SCP session and filecopy is started (according to the SCP servers log), but after a while, it fails:

Compressing the backup directory ... Done!
Copying Backup ...
%Error writing scp://xxxxxxx:yyyyyyy@IP-address//filename.tar.gz (Resource temporarily unavailable)ERROR: Resource temporarily unavailable
Failed!
Cleaning up ... Done!
ERROR: Backup failed!

If I do a "copy disk0:/<some file> scp://<username>:<password>@<SCP-server-IP>/<some file>" it also fails.

I have verified the credentials by using FileZilla to upload a file to the same folder on SCP server.

Problem is the same on ASA 9.6(4) and 9.9(2)

NOTE: If I allow FTP login on the SCP server, and use "FTP://" location, it works.

Any help is appreciated.

regards,

  Nikolaj

[Francesco Molino]

Hi
Just to make sure it's not a routing issue or asa using the bad interface, can you add the following at the end of your copy statement:
;int=interface_name

Can you run a packet-tracer over client using your scp server as destination to see if something and what is blocking the scp?

Are you trying to automate these backups? If so, i would encourage using the api which more reliable :-)

[nikolaj.joeker]

I did specify the interface.

Routing and ACL must be okay, as I see the SCP session and SCP command on the SSH server.

[Francesco Molino]

Ok if you see something on your server, do you have any logs or tcpdump to see what's failing?