Automated backup for your network switches with WinSCP and PowerShell

Hi James,

Thank you so much for the script. It works a treat however I’ve bumped into 2 issues.

1.) I want to store WinSCP on a network share, however when pointing to it in the .ps1 file, I simply get an error when running the script. When running locally it works fine (see error below)

“Add-Type : Could not load file or assembly ‘file://\\\\WinSCP\WinSCPnet.dll’
or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)
At C:\Network Switch Backup\Backup Network Switches.ps1:6 char:1
+ Add-Type -Path “\\\\WinSCP\W …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Add-Type], FileLoadException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.FileLoadException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddTypeCommand”

2.) This isn’t a fault with the script at all, more just me trying to get it to do what I want it to do.

So, I’m going to use the script to pull a config daily using task scheduler. However, I want to incorperate SVN into this so it only keeps one file but has version control. That bit I can do no problem, yet for some reason I can’t get it to change the name the file saves as.

For example, it’s currently saving as “2017-1-9”, but ideally I’d like for this to be saved as “swt-1-ben”. Is this possible to do?

Again, thank you so much for this script, automated backup solutions have been driving me mad!

Kindest regards,
Ben H

I must say it’s a very cool script that makes only one click to save your configs. Thank you very much James !

I altered this part of the ps1 in order to add the IP in the filename of saved config

Original
—
#Define the path to store the result of the download
$outputpath = $outputfolder + $date
—

–> file is like 2017-10-18

Altered
—
#Define the path to store the result of the download
$outputpath = $outputfolder + $date + “-” + $line.hostname
—

–> file is now like 2017-10-18-192.168.30.1

Hi there,

Just a heads up, this still appears as one of the top results for backing up Procurve configs automagically and it works a treat. Thanks so much 🙂 We’ve got a huge mix of network gear and 30+ procurve switches throughout the company. This just made my job considerably faster.

I’m useless at scripting but I’ve made a couple of cosmetic changes.
If you couldn’t find the WinSCP Automation downloads, you’ll need to make the following changes.

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Original:
Add-Type -Path “C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP Automation\WinSCPnet.dll”

Changed to: (assuming it’s installed in the default location)
Add-Type -Path “C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\WinSCPnet.dll”
—————-

For neatness sake I adapted what Florent kindly added:
Adds some spaces to the file name, adds the device hostname and adds a file extension to cheer me up.

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Original: $outputpath = $outputfolder + $date
Altered: $outputpath = $outputfolder + $date + “ – ” + $line.hostname + “.txt”
—————-

Files now output like “2017-11-14 – 10.1.10.114.txt”
I’ll get some dns records added and it’ll be lovely and tidy.
Brilliant.

Thanks again.

Exception setting “SshHostKeyFingerprint”: “SSH host key fingerprint “” does not match pattern /((ssh-rsa|ssh-dss|
ssh-ed25519|ecdsa-sha2-nistp(256|384|521))( |-))?(\d+ )?(([0-9a-f]{2}(:|-)){15}[0-9a-f]{2}|[0-9a-zA-Z+/]{43}=)(;((
ssh-rsa|ssh-dss|ssh-ed25519|ecdsa-sha2-nistp(256|384|521))( |-))?(\d+ )?(([0-9a-f]{2}(:|-)){15}[0-9a-f]{2}|[0-9a-z
A-Z+/]{43}=))*/”
At line:1 char:1
+ $sessionOptions.SshHostKeyFingerprint = $line.sshhostfingerprint
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], SetValueInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ExceptionWhenSetting

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Server hostkey finger print

MD5 = ssh-rsa 2048 97:a4:6f:40:10:39:22:29:f2:a2:2e:cf:ba:9d:9b:ab
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Hi ,

As i understand from error message this system dont support ssh-rsa 2048. is there any solution for this problem. Thnx.

Hi, i need an automatic Reboot of more than one switch.

Any ideas ?