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Your backup solution for switches and routers

SouthSeaPirate

Anyone care to share their backup process they use for their router and switches? Application, recurrence, coverage, etc?

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LeifAlire

Kiwicat quick easy and free

networker050184

Look into Rancid. Widely used in the industry for small and large deployments.

SouthSeaPirate

Thanks gents.

What is your recurrence?
Do you do it automatically?
How offten?

etc

networker050184

SouthSeaPirate wrote: »

Thanks gents.

What is your recurrence?
Do you do it automatically?
How offten?

etc

Snapshots taken daily or anytime a configuration is changed.

Definitely automatically.

Again if you haven't checked out Rancid do. It's free and does all this for you and more. Even has a nice and neat web interface for diffs.

CodeBlox

Solarwinds Orion. Gathers backups and changes automatically of the configs. It also has a nice feature that shows changes made with timestamps.

inscom.brigade

kiwi cat tools for configs, all our devices that have usb ports all have a flash drive inserted with an IOS, and a config stored on it.

cmitchell_00

I used to use all the above Kiwi, Trivia etc. but now I just backup the config's via putty. Once I save the config I end session and I restart session all while in the cli. Then, I change the putty settings; save the config via notepad and clean up the non sense i.e. more!, login info etc... Now, this method helps me keep sharp and aware of what is really getting backed up.

networker050184

That seems like an unfeasible approach once device counts start getting high. A network of 1000+ devices would take a team of people a long time logging in and manually backing up everything. Not to mention the amount of space needed to save everything.

DevilWAH

CISCO prime for the Cisco gear,

Legacy 3com and other kit I use restore point (Automate Network & Security device Backup, Configuration Compliance, Change Detection, Provisioning, Asset Management) as it can get configs of a multitude of devices as well as switches and routers, such as checkpoint, netapp, esxi hosts. So for small shops it covers a lot of device in one solution.

Kiwicat tools is another great tool, don't use it here but was my tool of choice for years.

I have also set up TLC/Expect scripts to back up and manage config changes before.

SouthSeaPirate

I have a question about Kiwi Cat Tools. Is it something that used to be free? Im showing Solarwinds starting at $750.

Is this what eveyone is using? Download Kiwi CatTools - MajorGeeks

I cant brain today, so I can't Rancid either. Orion cost prohibitive. So Kiwi it is.

I really appreciate the input everyone!

RouteMyPacket

CatTools get's my vote

SouthSeaPirate

Cat Tools only allows for one device. So now thats out.

networker050184

And here we are back to Rancid. Easy and free!

inscom.brigade

Not Rancid, not Free, a program we used, Great tool, (Netbrain), I've had classes, it is a licensed program. It cost LOTS! It maps a network (live), L3, and L2. LIVE as in , at the moment live results. It also features its own integrated terminal emulator so you can call up configs on the fly. Storage of network topology is also integrated. NETBRAIN

DevilWAH

SouthSeaPirate wrote: »

I have a question about Kiwi Cat Tools. Is it something that used to be free? Im showing Solarwinds starting at $750.

Is this what eveyone is using? Download Kiwi CatTools - MajorGeeks

I cant brain today, so I can't Rancid either. Orion cost prohibitive. So Kiwi it is.

I really appreciate the input everyone!

Kiwi was brought out a few years back by solarwinds

when it was independent it was free for 5 devices and about £199 for the pro version. Sadly solarwinds now sell it at around £600

, still a great product but for not much more you can get much better products. They have also integrated it in to there solarwind orion product line so not sure how long it will remain as a stand alone product.

SouthSeaPirate

Cat Tools is crazy easy and I do like it. Im probably going to go ahead and order as soon as I find an approved vendor.

I really appreciate all the input everyone!