You can configure a router to transfer its configuration to an archive file periodically. Tasks to configure the router configuration transfer to an archive site are:
If you want to back up your router’s current configuration to an archive site, you can configure the router to transfer its currently active configuration by FTP periodically or after each commit.
To configure the router to transfer its currently active configuration to an archive site, include statements at the [edit system archival configuration] hierarchy level:
- [edit system archival configuration]
- transfer-interval interval;
- transfer-on-commit;
- archive-sites {
- ftp://username<:password>@host-address<:port>/url-path;
- scp://username<:password>@host-address<:port>/url-path;
- }
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Note: When specifying a URL in a JUNOS statement using an IPv6 host address, you must enclose the entire URL in quotation marks (" ") and enclose the IPv6 host address in brackets ([ ]). For example, “ftp://username<:password>@[ipv6-host-address]<:port>/url-path” |
To configure the router to periodically transfer its currently active configuration to an archive site, include the transfer-interval statement at the [edit system archival configuration] hierarchy level:
- [edit system archival configuration]
- transfer-interval interval;
The interval is a period of time ranging from 15 through 2880 minutes.
To configure the router to transfer its currently active configuration to an archive site each time you commit a candidate configuration, include the transfer-on-commit statement at the [edit system archival configuration] hierarchy level:
- [edit system archival configuration]
- transfer-on-commit;
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Note: When specifying a URL in a JUNOS statement using an IPv6 host address, you must enclose the entire URL in quotation marks (" ") and enclose the IPv6 host address in brackets ([ ]). For example, “scp://username<:password>@[ipv6-host-address]<:port>/url-path” |
When you configure the router to transfer its configuration files, you specify an archive site to which the files are transferred. If you specify more than one archive site, the router attempts to transfer files to the first archive site in the list, moving to the next site only if the transfer fails.
When you use the archive-sites statement, you can specify a destination as a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) URL, FTP URL, or secure copy (SCP)-style remote file specification. The URL type file:// is also supported.
To configure the archive site, include the archive-sites statement at the [edit system archival configuration] hierarchy level:
- [edit system archival configuration]
- archive-sites {
- ftp://username@host:<port>url-path password password;
- http://username@host:<port>url-path password password;
- scp://username@host:<port>url-path password password;
- file://<path>/<filename>;
- }
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Note: When specifying a URL in a JUNOS statement using an IPv6 host address, you must enclose the entire URL in quotation marks (" ") and enclose the IPv6 host address in brackets ([ ]). For example, “scp://username<:password>@[ipv6-host-address]<:port>/url-path” |
When you specify the archive site, do not add a forward slash (/) to the end of the URL. The format for the destination filename is as follows:
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Note: The time included in the destination filename is always in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) regardless of whether the time on the router is configured as UTC or the local time zone. The default time zone on the router is UTC. |