Backup Cisco Devices using Rancid

This short tutorial uses rancid as the backup application. Rancid is a free Unix utility. Please use the following link as a reference http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=106287.  This tutorial adds a topology to make things a little easier to understand.

 

Sample .profile and .cloginrc

linuxhost@client1:~$ cat .cloginrc
add password   10.0.0.22       {cisco}      {cisco}
add method * telnet ssh
 

linuxhost@client1:~$cat .profile

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/rancid/bin/:/home/netadmin

linuxhost@client1:~$ clogin 10.0.0.22

10.0.0.22
spawn telnet 10.0.0.22

Trying 10.0.0.22...
Connected to 10.0.0.22.
Escape character is '^]'.


User Access Verification

Password:
R1>enable
Password:
R1#
R1#

Here is a sample config of the backup script.

#!/bin/bash
# Variables

clogin=/usr/lib/rancid/bin/clogin
path=/backup/
tdy=`date +%m%d%Y`

#network equipment backup

$clogin -c 'write term' 10.0.0.22 > $path/r1-$tdy.cfg

Here is the crontab output

42 8 * * * /home/netadmin/backup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1