[c-nsp] Automated configuration backup script

[Will Hargrave]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 07:17:33PM -0500, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> I wrote a tool to do exactly that some time ago and have continued to 
> develop it since.  I plan to put it up on sourceforge before long, but if 
> you want a copy of it to look at, let me know.  Where possible, the 
> backups are TFTP transfers initiated by SNMP.  Some devices can only be 
> backed up using an interacive login because the MIBs don't support config 
> file management.

I have a similar perl script but it only supports the old cisco MIB for
config uploads, support for which has been removed in some 12.2/12.3. 
The Extreme support seems somewhat dodgy (which is probably my poor coding 
- I just let it limp on). A copy of anything more robust would be
appreciated.

One of the irritating things you have to do is strip out the lines that
change every time (e.g. cisco's ntp clock-period) before checking into
CVS.

I'm hoping to move to SCP direct copies where possible on platforms that
support it.

W