Backing up a configuration file using SCP
You can use secure copy protocol (SCP) to download the configuration file from the FortiGate unit as an alternative method of backing up the configuration file or an individual VDOM configuration file. This is done by enabling SCP for and administrator account and enabling SSH on a port used by the SCP client application to connect to the FortiGate unit. SCP is enabled using the CLI commands:
config system global set admin-scp enable
end
Use the same commands to backup a VDOM configuration by first entering the commands:
config global set admin-scp enable end
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Hi Mike,
Before anything, you have a great Fortinet website and YouTube channel.
My question, as a newbie in the field of Fortinet, how I can do a scp backup ?
Quote from your Best practices:
config system global
set admin-scp enable
end
Use the same commands to backup a VDOM configuration by first entering the commands:
config global
set admin-scp enable
end
I was working on a script on how to do the backup using scp and rancid:
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#! /bin/bash
set -o pipefail
set -o nounset
set -o errexit
umask 0077
TO=60
stty -echo
read -e -s -p “PASSWORD: ” PASSWORD
stty echo
read -e -p “USER: ” USER
read -e -p “DEVICE: ” DEVICE
SSH_OPTS=”-q -oConnectTimeout=${TO}s -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oControlMaster=no -oControlPath=/dev/null”
backup() {
sshpass -p “${PASSWORD}” scp -p ${SSH_OPTS} “$USER@$DEVICE”:sys_config “${DEVICE}”.sys_config
echo “${DEVICE}: Success”
}
echo “${DEVICE}: Checking ssh connectivity”
sshpass -p “${PASSWORD}” ssh -t ${SSH_OPTS} “$USER@$DEVICE” exit && backup
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This script save only the global configuration of the FW, even though the FW has 3 VDOMs:
– Global
– Management
– root
Now, excuse me my stupidity if you can, but I don’t understand exactly the meaning of:
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Use the same commands to backup a VDOM configuration by first entering the commands:
config global
set admin-scp enable
end
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Do I have to enable admin-scp twice to be able to perform a script backup that save the configuration of the FW with VDOMs ? Or the script save a full configuration having all the VDOMs once the admin-scp is enabled for config global ?