Backup of WLC's

[maymann76]

Hi community,

I would like to schedule automatic backups of our WLC's OoO-hours:

1. SSH from secure server and create _FULL_ backup - what would be the CLI command(s) ?

2. SCP from secure server and retreive file(s) - what is the location of the file(s) ?

Thanks in advance !

~maymann

[Justin Kurynny · Accepted solution]

Michael,

TFTP and FTP are currently the only supported file transfer protocols on the WLC. Here's an example of how you would do it with TFTP (after logging in with SSH):

(Cisco Controller) >transfer upload datatype config

(Cisco Controller) >transfer upload mode tftp

(Cisco Controller) >transfer upload serverip 192.0.2.10

(Cisco Controller) >transfer upload path .

(Cisco Controller) >transfer upload filename wlcConfigBackup2012-03-03.txt

(Cisco Controller) >transfer upload start

This may take some time.

Are you sure you want to start? (y/N) y

Justin

[maymann76]

Hi,

Justin: thanks for you quick reply !

Would it be the same commands if I chose to use ftp, just replacing "tftp" with "ftp" in your above example ?

Is there really no secure way of doing automated backups... ?

Thanks in advance !

~maymann

[Justin Kurynny]

Michael,

FTP is a little different because you need to specify a username and password, but it's the same otherwise.

>transfer upload username

>transfer upload password

You can passkey encrypt your config file prior to uploading it from the controller to the server:

>transfer encrypt enable

>transfer encrypt set-key

Justin

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[George Stefanick]

If you have WCS, its simple to schedule this ..

[maymann76]

Hi,

George: I don't have WCS.

Why on earth didn't Cisco include a simple SCP server. This would make secure backups possible (insecure and cleartext TFTP/FTP is just so last millennium !).

Anyway: I think I can manage setting up a TFTP for this purpose, eventhough I'm not happy about it !

Thanks for you help !

~maymann