Cisco – Automatic configuration backup with SCP
Posted by Josh on Wed 8 Aug 2007Categories: Cisco , Cisco Routers , SSH - [12] Comments
This tutorial combines a couple previous tutorials: Automatic configuration backups with ftp and How To use SCP with Cisco routers.
archive
path scp://blindhog:password@10.100.100.100//cygdrive/c/router-backups/router
write-memory
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August 9th, 2007 at 7:52 am
thanks
can u create a turorail for ivr on astersik?
thanks again
August 18th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
hi i enjoyed the read
September 17th, 2007 at 8:49 am
In which IOS version was this feature inplemented?
September 17th, 2007 at 9:36 am
archive
Command History
Release
12.3(4) – This command was introduced.
12.2(25)S – This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(25)S.
October 16th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Thanks for the tutorial.
I implement the automatic backup for the cisco 2950 and 3750 switches ( 145 switches ) and its works fine.
Now the second line can make changes and they dont have to think about a backup.
realy SUPERRRRRRRRRR.
tnx
greats Ger
November 1st, 2007 at 3:28 am
Anyone have any issues where the config starts to write to the server, but then it just stops in the middle of the transfer?
June 19th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
[...] a router configuration needed to be automatically backed up in two locations. I used the ‘archive‘ configuration to backup to an scp server and a kron job to backup to an ftp server. Without [...]
July 20th, 2008 at 11:23 am
How can one restore the config from command line to pick up from the SCP server
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:34 am
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3750/software/release/12.2_44_se/configuration/guide/swiosfs.html#wp1258065
rollback is in the archive section
February 1st, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Is there a way to get it to save the file it writes to the SCP server with a certain filename, such as the date?
February 1st, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Rhodan,
Yes: http://www.blindhog.net/cisco-config-archive-variables/
Josh
June 16th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
@Malcolm: I had that problem and I eventually figured out that it was a firewall problem. Removed the firewall and it worked!