[c-nsp] Automated configuration backups

[Eric Helm]

Primoz Jeroncic wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Bartosz Piec wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to do an automated backup of router's configuration. How
>> can I do this? Everything that I've found was to use rsh command. Are
>> there any other ways? Maybe some tool from Cisco?
>>
>> I've got Cisco 2821 and want to make backups from Linux box.
> 
> I don't know about you, but for me rsh works really great. 10 line
> shell script (which could be probably even shorter if I would bother
> with it for more then minute) works better over rsh then anything
> else I saw till now. But on the other hand someone might have some
> security issues with it, which can be minimized with proper config
> though.
> Otherwise I remember seeing some fancy backup program running via
> telnet or ssh, but to be honest I forgot name of that thing.

The beauty of RANCID is that it makes use of CVS or subversion, so you
have change history and diffs.

/Eric