Effective Solutions for Cisco Network Device Configuration Backups

[turgutjafarli]

Hello everyone,

We have many Cisco 2960 and Cisco 9200 switches. When backing up their configurations via FTP to a file server, every time we make a change and issue the write memory command, a new backup file is created — because the backup process appends the current date and time to the filename. As a result, we end up with too many backup files for each switch.

However, I only need to keep the latest two backup files per switch.

Here’s what I want to achieve:

• Scenario 1: When I issue the write memory command on a switch, it should automatically create a backup file with the current date and time in the filename and upload it to the FTP server.

• Scenario 2: When I issue write memory a second time, it should again create a new backup file with the current timestamp and upload it.

• Scenario 3: On the third and subsequent backups, it should delete the oldest backup file for that switch and keep only the latest two backups.

Important note: Please do not suggest creating separate folders per switch as a solution. That would be too complicated and difficult to manage in our environment.

Does anyone know of any software or configuration method that can achieve this behavior?

Best regards,
T. Jafarli

[joaolucasbmacedo]

I've been using NetBox with a backup plugin wit Git. It pulls config from each device every 5 minutes and stores if it has differences. 

[Leo Laohoo]

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@turgutjafarli wrote:

• Scenario 1: When I issue the write memory command on a switch, it should automatically create a backup file with the current date and time in the filename and upload it to the FTP server.

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archive
 log config
  logging enable
 path tftp://A.B.C.D/$h-$t
 write-memory
 time-period 10080