Automatic backup to FTP server
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These are unix/linux/freebsd commands that would retrieve the configuration file. I know of no out of the box solution that will do what you want. A little elbow grease is required.
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I read somewhere on the site about WinSCP. Is this something I could use? http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,785.0.html
Or should I just post a bounty?
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Have a look at http://winscp.net/eng/docs/scripting#console how to do scripted events. If you prefer using a Windows server to collect the configs from your pfSense installs you can schedule some tasks to do so.
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Everytime I try to connect I get the following error:
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You have to use sftp(fallback scp) as protocol (the middle option). Login as user "root" and password <webguipassword>.</webguipassword>
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Excellent!!!!!!!!!!…One last question. If I backup the config.xml...How does that effect any packages that I have added? Is that information in the config/xml so when I reload a config it will automatically install the packages which were previously installed?
Thanks
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You have to manually install the packages but their settings will be stored in the config.xml.
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Found a great product…http://www.xi-soft.com/ Lets me connect and schedule backups of the configs using the application. Only $24 if bought. Tried it out. Lets me do any schedule.
Just mapped to the file and it worked perfectly.
Thanks for the help.
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If others would like to be able to do this for large installations I will create a tutorial once I feel comfortable with the program. Let me know.
Thanks,
Mark
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Not sure others want to buy a software if you can simply script it with the free winscp or even with the solution scott pointed out earlier in this thread but fell free to do a tutorial. ;)
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No offense, but I don't understand why you are going to pay for something that you can get for free even on Windows.
Just use the Windows Task Scheduler! It's a native Windows feature. See:
http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308569Additionally I was using PuTTY's pscp commandline utility to do the actual download. To do the download you have to execute pscp like this:
"C:\Programme\Simon Tatham\PuTTY\pscp -P 22 -l root -pw pfsense -2 -batch gw-buero.abyssworld.de:\conf\config.xml c:\blah.xml"This downloads the config.xml to c:\blah.xml.
Cheers
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No offense taken….the more help the better. If someone has a better idea or easier way to acheive the same goal I am all for it. I am a windows guy and because of that I tend to lean towards gui applications to perform what I am trying to do. My other reason is I wanted to be able to receive an email notification if failure occured when trying to copy the file. If there is a reliable way to do this for free I am all for it.
Thanks again for all your help.
Mark
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No offense taken….the more help the better. If someone has a better idea or easier way to acheive the same goal I am all for it. I am a windows guy and because of that I tend to lean towards gui applications to perform what I am trying to do. My other reason is I wanted to be able to receive an email notification if failure occured when trying to copy the file. If there is a reliable way to do this for free I am all for it.
Thanks again for all your help.
Mark
ReRead Daniels post. He gave you a free windows solution.
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I did read it and yes it is a good solution…but as I stated I would like to be able to receive an email notification if failure occurs because I am looking to backup 25+ boxes. Just to make sure I read about Putty's PSCP and MS Scheduler and found nothing regarding email notification. If I have over looked something, my apologies.
Mark
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There are free tools to send mails from a batchjob as well like http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/cmdlinemail/cmdlinemail.htm
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Sounds good. Now I will have to see if there is a way to use this new program with putty's solution to email me only if failure occurs. I used a site a while back called batchworld for assistance with scripting. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/ They are very helpful with giving answers to this kind of stuff. Thanks for the tip on the commandline email utility.
Mark
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winscp will return an error to the caller if it fails. Check for a failure code. This is all possible on windows shell scripting.