ciscodnacbackupctl

Cisco DNA Center Backup Tool (as a CLI tool)
Helps you to manage your backups and purge previous backups and also incompatible backups (between versions)

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Why?

In the current state of Cisco DNA Center, it's possible to schedule and perform backups.
But there's no automated way of purging backups and users are asked to purge backups through the Web UI ciscodnacbackupctl offers a CLI interface to handle your backups from your terminal or as a daemon/docker container

Features

• List all backups
• History/On-going backups
• Delete backup
• Purge backups (all or just incompatible ones)
• Schedule backups
  • New Backup
  • Purge
• Debug HTTP

Unsupported features

• Assurance backups (NFS)
  • "The Assurance data consists of network assurance and analytics data. The first backup of Assurance data is a full backup. After that, backups are incremental."
  • Details

Installation

pip install ciscodnacbackupctl

Config

ciscodnacbackupctl config --help
Usage: ciscodnacbackupctl config [OPTIONS]

Options:
  --env / --no-env
  --hostname TEXT   [required]
  --username TEXT   [required]
  --password TEXT   [required]
  --secure          Secure HTTPS towards Cisco DNA Center
  --encode          Encode Cisco DNA Center config to Base64 string
  --overwrite       Writes over the existing config for Cisco DNA Center
  --help            Show this message and exit.

Usage: ciscodnacbackupctl [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --debug / --no-debug
  --version             Show the version and exit.
  --help                Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  config
  create
  daemon           ['start', 'stop', 'restart', 'status']
  delete
  history
  list
  progress
  purge
  schedule_backup
  schedule_purge
  whoami

Technologies & Frameworks Used

Cisco Products & Services:

• Cisco DNA Center

Tools & Frameworks:

• rich
• tabulate
• hurry
• click
• schedule
• daemonocle

Daemon or Docker

This makes it possible to automatically purge old backups daily

Daemon

ciscodnacbackupctl daemon start --keep 3

Docker Support

Generate Cisco DNA Center config as Base64 string
docker run -it --rm robertcsapo/ciscodnacbackupctl config --env --hostname <dnachost> --username <username> --password <password> --encode

Use the ENV to exucute commands

List

docker run -it --rm \
-e DNAC_CONFIG=ewogICAgImRuYWMiOiB7CiAgICAgICAgImhvc3RuYW1lIjogInNhbXBsZS5ob3N0LnRsZCIsCiAgICAgICAgInVzZXJuYW1lIjogImRuYWMiLAogICAgICAgICJwYXNzd29yZCI6ICJwYXNzdzByZCIsCiAgICAgICAgInNlY3VyZSI6IGZhbHNlCiAgICB9Cn0 \
robertcsapo/ciscodnacbackupctl \
list

Purge

docker run -it --rm \
-e DNAC_CONFIG=ewogICAgImRuYWMiOiB7CiAgICAgICAgImhvc3RuYW1lIjogInNhbXBsZS5ob3N0LnRsZCIsCiAgICAgICAgInVzZXJuYW1lIjogImRuYWMiLAogICAgICAgICJwYXNzd29yZCI6ICJwYXNzdzByZCIsCiAgICAgICAgInNlY3VyZSI6IGZhbHNlCiAgICB9Cn0 \
robertcsapo/ciscodnacbackupctl \
purge

Authors & Maintainers

Smart people responsible for the creation and maintenance of this project:

• Christina Skoglund cskoglun@cisco.com
• Robert Csapo rcsapo@cisco.com

License

This project is licensed to you under the terms of the Cisco Sample Code License.