@NesaM
To be clear, the flashbackup is an entire backup of the MM. This backup also contains all of the configuration of the MDs. If you already have Airwave, this is done every morning at 4am automatically. If you want it done besides that schedule, you can click on the "backup now" button. If you do not have airwave or if you have a specific backup server where you want to automate this function for organized archiving, that is when I would consider scripts. Besides that, typically Airwave is already doing that.
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Original Message:
Sent: Nov 09, 2020 01:29 PM
From: Nebojsa Markovic
Subject: Scheduled Backup of Mobility Master Flashbackup.tar.gz
Thanks @cjoseph, much appreciated! This will work for us until utilize Ansible and APIs.
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Original Message:
Sent: Nov 09, 2020 12:54 PM
From: Colin Joseph
Subject: Scheduled Backup of Mobility Master Flashbackup.tar.gz
@NesaM,
For every Aruba controller/MM device in Airwave that you have a username and password defined, it will backup the flash nightly during maintenance. You can also do a manual backup, by going to the config portion of that device:
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Original Message:
Sent: Nov 09, 2020 11:58 AM
From: Nebojsa Markovic
Subject: Scheduled Backup of Mobility Master Flashbackup.tar.gz
Thanks Joseph, but if I understood Marcel correctly there is a way of polling flash backup from a specific MM (I might be wrong), not only a AMP backup file.
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Original Message:
Sent: Nov 09, 2020 10:58 AM
From: Colin Joseph
Subject: Scheduled Backup of Mobility Master Flashbackup.tar.gz
Airwave automatically creates flashbackup.tar.gz from an MM nightly. Please search the Airwave documentation for "backups".
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Original Message:
Sent: Nov 09, 2020 09:49 AM
From: Nebojsa Markovic
Subject: Scheduled Backup of Mobility Master Flashbackup.tar.gz
Hi, when saying that "Airwave can create automatic flash backups from your Mobility Master" do you mean by that nightly_data00x.tar.gz files, or from specific MM? If later is the case where can we configure this option? Thanks.
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Nebojsa Markovic
Original Message:
Sent: Sep 11, 2020 11:21 AM
From: marcel koedijk
Subject: Scheduled Backup of Mobility Master Flashbackup.tar.gz
Hi Athony,
The most easy and recommended method is to use Aruba Airwave for monitoring. Airwave can create automatic flash backups from your Mobility Master. Not only from your MM but also from all your switches to keep all configuration backups centrally managed.
Off course you are free to script it yourself with a simple SSH python script or make use of the powerful REST API interface.
For some API example see this topic:
https://community.arubanetworks.com/t5/Developer-Community/How-to-ArubaOS-8-flash-backup-and-file-copy-using-API/td-p/626781
Hope this helps you!