Automatically backup the Brocade config via FTP

WARNING: This may be broken n 6.1.0h firmware. I’m looking into it. For now, I’m running an expect script from a remote host to do these backups.

The following will backup your switch config over FTP to a remote server daily. If you have to replace your switch, you can just do a configdownload after getting it on the network to restore all your settings.

To make this happen, I created a short shell script to upload into the cron directory on the switch. You can transfer this file via SCP. I had problems with FileZilla’s SCP, so I copied it from another host, which worked fine. Just put this in a file and upload it to /etc/cron.daily/ on the switch.

#!/bin/sh

# configbackup
#
# Author: Patrick Vaughan - 7-1-09
#
# Purpose:
#       Do a configupload to a remote FTP server.  This process does a backup
#           from AD 255, so as to get all the Zoning configuration.
#
# Change Log:
#
# License:
#   Copyright (C) 2009  Patrick Vaughan
#
#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
#    (at your option) any later version.
#
#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#    GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
#    along with this program.  If not, see .

DEST_HOST="192.168.1.1"
DEST_USER="ftp_user"
DEST_DIR="/export/sansw"
HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
PASSWORD="password"

/fabos/link_abin/ad --exec 255 "/fabos/link_sbin/configupload -p ftp "$DEST_HOST","$DEST_USER","$DEST_DIR/$HOSTNAME.cfg","$PASSWORD"" > /dev/null

exit