How to schedule a configuration backup for PacketShaper and upload the backup configuration file to an FTP server

Products

• PacketShaper

Issue/Introduction

To back up a configuration to an FTP server, you need to create a command file of the backup and ftp commands, and then create a schedule for the command file.

Resolution

To configure an automated configuration backup on PacketShaper, do the following:

1. Create a command file with the syntax below:

#the following command performs a configuration backup and stores it as backup.cmd on 9.256/cmd directory

setup capture complete backup.cmd

#the next command initiates a connection to the FTP server and uploads the configuration file. You need to edit the username, password & server name to actual variable with the following syntax

#ftpput [user[:passwd]@]<host> <srcfile> <destfile>

ftpput username:[email protected] 9.256/cmd/backup.cmd backup.cmd

 

2. Configure Command Scheduling using the command file that you created in step 1.