Switching

Hello,

If I ftp to my switch, is there a particular file I can copy from it so I have a backup of the configuration?

Hi,

You can try below.

labroot@jtac-ex4200-8poe-r2002> start shell
% cd /var/db/config/
% ls -ltr
total 184
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 903 Sep 13 06:55 juniper.conf.31.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 898 Sep 13 10:06 juniper.conf.30.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 921 Sep 14 04:24 juniper.conf.29.gz

labroot@jtac-ex4200-8poe-r2002# show | display set | save /var/tmp/config.txt
Wrote 37 lines of output to '/var/tmp/config.txt'

{master:0}[edit]
labroot@jtac-ex4200-8poe-r2002# run start shell
% cd /var/tmp/
% ls -ltr | grep config.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 labroot field 1984 Oct 28 06:39 config.txt

The currently running configuration file is here

/var/db/config/juniper.conf.gz

The other files in the directory with the added numbers are rollback versions from previous commits.

You can copy this off to save a backup.

Another option is to configure archival to have Junos copy off the config file to an external scp or ftp server on commit or at a time interfval.

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/task/configuration/junos-software-system-management-router-configuration-archiving.html

An open source option is Oxidized which will pull backups and keep a Git source change repository for each device so you can see the changes.

https://github.com/ytti/oxidized

Thanks!