Do you need to ensure that you have an updated backup of your network devices? Backup tasks are easilly forgetful, so manually backups are not the best idea. As always, we should configure automated copy tasks in order to make sure we have the latest configuration available in case of failures. We never know how important is a saved configuration until we need it.
Cisco IOS provide a set of configurations that allows us to schedule these processes. We just need to enter in archive configuration mode:
core1(config)#archivecore1(config-archive)#? Archive configuration commands: default Set a command to its defaults exit Exit from archive configuration mode log Logging commands maximum maximum number of backup copies no Negate a command or set its defaults path path for backups rollback Rollback parameters time-period Period of time in minutes to automatically archive the running-config
As we can see, we’re able to set parameters like maximum number of copies, the target path where will be stored the copies, time-period between executions, etc
Taking a look at the path options, we have several destinations, for this example I’ll choose tftp server:
core1(config-archive)#path ?ftp: Write archive on ftp: file systemhttp: Write archive on http: file systemhttps: Write archive on https: file systemrcp: Write archive on rcp: file systemscp: Write archive on scp: file systemtftp: Write archive on tftp: file systemcore1(config-archive)#path tftp://192.168.100.29/Core1/core1.cfg
Next step is define when we want these copies to be done. In addition to the scheduled task, maybe we would want a new backup each time we save the running config:
core1(config-archive)#write-memory core1(config-archive)#time-period 86400
The above configuration instructs the router to send the saved configuration each 86400 seconds (1 day) to the ftfp server, or after a manually saved configuration.
Finally, check the configuration is working:
core1#sh archive The next archive file will be named tftp://192.168.100.29/Core1/core1.cfg-6 Archive # Name 0 1 tftp://192.168.100.29/Core1/core1.cfg-1 2 tftp://192.168.100.29/Core1/core1.cfg-2 3 tftp://192.168.100.29/Core1/core1.cfg-3 4 tftp://192.168.100.29/Core1/core1.cfg-4 5 tftp://192.168.100.29/Core1/core1.cfg-5 <- Most Recent 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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