(7 votes, average: 4.14 out of 5)
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I have been using tftp and ftp for configuration file backups for a while. In an effort to tighten security, I tried to use scp several times without any luck. I was not able to find a lot of documention on Cisco’s website or other websites. Through trial and error, I was able to figure it out 
Hopefully, this video will help fill the gaps for others wanting to use a secure method to backup router configs.
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August 7th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
great info I will be recommending this to a couple of clients.
Thanks for your hard work putting up this tutorials they have been veryuseful.
August 8th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
[...] This tutorial combines a couple previous tutorials: Automatic configuration backups with ftp and How To use SCP with Cisco routers. [...]
August 16th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
can you please help me with where to start from. i have general idea over the networking business and will like to take the ccna. is this the start off point?
manny
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:53 am
Thanks so much for writing these helpful articles.
Please keep writing more and more.
HARVINDER.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
While i found the tutorial useful i got an error messagr that I don’t understand: “Cannot start the SSH server for windows”. Why this error message?
Thanks
DP
April 15th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
@Dave, Here is an article that might help.
http://erdelynet.com/archive/ssh-l/2004-01/2265.html
Josh