Script for making automatic Dude backup's remotely

RouterOS The Dude
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Hi all!

Here is my script for making dude backup's from PC's remotely. Probably, it will be useful for someone.
It requires:

  • Bourne shell (sh)
  • awk
  • wget

To start using it just fill your admin login, password and server name and add to cron (or start by hand).
Backup XML files and log by default will be placed in "dude-backup-files" subdirectory. You can change this option if you need this.

Tested on FreeBSD 6.2, RouterOS 3.28 (x86), Dude 3.4.


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BUG: Custom logs reseted to default after Windows reboot
Disk space used by backups
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I can’t seem to get it working on 3.27 x86 dude 3.4. I don’t think it’s your script though because I can’t download from the web interface either: Import/Export → Dude configuration XML export. Attached is the log generated from your script.

Any ideas?
log.txt (1.17 KB)

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This script just automatize backup procedure through web-interface. If you cannot receive a copy through the web interface then also the script will not work.

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That makes sense.

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Today I have detected very unpleasant error in a script. Through this error it was not work with cron.

All, who use script must update to ver 1.1.

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thanks!!! it’s realy helpful.
/rodrigo

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Hi guys,
the theme and it was interesting to see if it worked? I want to attach an example which IP addresses where to and that you can make backup of the Windows OS.
I would be grateful if you attach a picture of your patterns and where IP addresses are printed insert asterisks.

best regards

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It works greate.
The only problem may appear because the dude sometimes stops responding on WEB interface.
It cause backup to fail.

I would be grateful if you attach a picture of your patterns and where IP addresses are printed insert asterisks.

what do you mean a picture of your patterns?

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I fixed it did is, it works great. We try to get him not to delete backups from previous days, and keep backups 1 week?!

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We try to get him not to delete backups from previous days, and keep backups 1 week?!

I just commented

rm -f $backupdir/old/*

rm -d $backupdir/old

and sheduled the cron on my FreeBSD to delete backup files older then 10 days.

25 01 * * * /usr/bin/find /usr/dudebackup/data/old/ -name "*" -mtime +10 -exec rm -f {} ;

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Cool script. simple, useful, scalable.

But i have a problem. Seriously problem.
My network contents over 7k devices.
I understand, that Dude don’t keep their config anytime on harddrive, rewriting with certain interval. Dude generate their XML from RAM ? On my server, with 700 devices on monitoring with Dude(other devices planned after all troubles will defeat), when i start backup XML - for generating process Dude “eat” ~20 min. and after this time i have download dialog.
In this view - we have a big trouble. WGET send request for autorization, after that download. De jure - download has start. De facto - start the process of generating XML-code and only then download will start.
How result we have 0B downloaded *.xml file.

may be who know solution for this trouble?

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Hi, ormwish
Probably you should move to Dude 4.0 Beta.
The backup on 4.0 is faster and backup file size is lower (in my case it is redused for 10 times from 120Mb to 12Mb).

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Запрос HTTP послан, ожидание ответа... 
  HTTP/1.0 200 OK
  Connection: close
  Content-Length: 0
  Content-Type: text/xml
  Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:12:15 GMT
  Expires: 0
Длина: игнорируется [text/xml]
Saving to: «/home/backup/dude-backup/data/dude-backup-2010.07.08.xml»

     0K                                                       0,00 =0s

2010-07-08 13:03:08 (0,00 B/s) - «/home/backup/dude-backup/data/dude-backup-2010.07.08.xml» saved [0]

It’s WGET output, when i run the script. Why Content-Lenght = 0? 0_o. May be because the dude 3.6 returns Content-Length=0 in their headers while generating, and sends the additional HTTP-request with correct headers when XML was generated? Then i have question. How make script is cath this request (if this reasons are true)

Gsandul, thanks for solution. Probably’ll do.
May be offtop, but did you know about upgrading dude 2.2 to 3.6 or 4(beta) and 3.6 to 4(beta)?
May possible to data loss, misrepresentation,distortion of topology on maps, missing probes, etc.?

Our Company buying other ISP, and their using Dude 2.2 for monitoring services on devices, so i ask.
In the near future, I plan to consolidate both servers as monitoring-agents. This requires reduction to a single version.


UP. Content-Lenght = 0 because harddrive is full. Not awailable space required for backup.

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For statistics:
The last backup copy received by a script has more than 100 Mb and procedure of its generation has occupied almost 5 minutes.

(Dude 3.6 on RouterOS 4.10 x86, ~600 devices).

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thank you, Phase!

Rus: Постараюсь написать скрипт, который бы структуру дудового стораджа(то же что и бэкап) забирал по scp.
Eng: I’ll try to write a script that would pick up the structure Dude storage(the same as backup) via scp.

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there is a same script that will upload config. in dude? Thx