On 16 Jan 2008, at 22:56, Aaron Cherman wrote:

> Hey everyone, I hope this isn't considered spam to everyone.  I see  
> posts every so often of users who have a m0n0wall installation that  
> is not responding for various reasons and have a need to get there  
> config.xml due to the lack of a backup.  I am curious how often  
> everyone else backs up their configs.  I backup mine every time I  
> make a major change (ie. add/remove/change a filter rule, add/ 
> remove/change a NAT mapping, etc.).  My backups could be a couple  
> times a day and sometime not for over a month.
>
> Anyone else?
>
>
> Aaron

I've just set up a script to do this daily and and keep 90 days worth  
of backups:

#!/bin/sh
USER=<user>
PASS=<password>
PROTO=http
M0N0IP=<host/ip>
BASE=/path/to/backups
FILE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M)-config.xml

curl -s -o "$BASE/$FILE" -F Submit=download -u "$USER:$PASS"  
"$PROTO://$M0N0IP/diag_backup.php"
gzip "$BASE/$FILE"
find "$BASE" -mtime +90 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

Heavily inspired by what's posted on http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/ 
thirdparty-automatedbackups.html

HTH,
Chris

PS: Feel free to add my script to the list if anyone finds it useful...

-- 
Chris Boot
bootc at bootc dot net
http://www.bootc.net/