Hello Everyone,

I am looking to implement router backups in our environment. Unfortunately my workplace does not want to spend a dime on a backup solution, so I was thinking about sending the configs from the routers using kron command to a FTP server inside our network. I am hitting a snag right of the bet on this part.

I have a local Router that is directly connected to a switch, on the switch I have a server setup with a FTP server. Gave it a userrname password and port number and a shared directory. when I try to copy the running config to it I get an error saying (incorrect login/password) on the router



I did a traceroute to make sure that the FTP port is ok, and it is. I have also remotely connected to the lab's FTP server from my workstation using the username and password I set up on the Server.

My question is why is the router giving me the incorrect login? There is no option to specify username and password..

Also is Kron the right way of doing backups? I have almost 0 resources and I am not a scrip writer to write a batch script that will go out and grab the configurations and send it back to me.

Thanks

rancid is free and works beautifully

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they say no third party software eather....

+1 for rancid. If you have to do things on the router:

...or...
Best option: use the 'archive config' option, rather than kron.

Thank you... to be honest I didint even think that I could do the usernam + password for ftp on a router

Rancid isn't third party, it's open source just like the linux box your ftp server is running on....



the permissions on your upload directory are probably wrong.

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rancid is great once you get it working right. I would rather do a Archive than a kron set off to backup the config after x amount of hours. Even if you did not want third party you can always create a tftp server then parse the files based off of host name / time stamp.

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That.

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