I am attempted to automate a weekly file backup of my switch/router configurations to a file server while making changes to the file name before it sends. I work in a secure facility on an isolated network so the software I can use is limited. I am automating this using tcl as I am running the automation on the switches/routers. Currently the only issue that I am running into are the character returns. Currently my script looks like this:
set source_file "sourcefile.txt"
set date [clock format [clock seconds] -format "%Y%m%d"]
set destination_file "$source_file-$date"
set username "username"
set password "password"
copy run $source_file
copy $source_file $destination_file
delete /force $source_file
copy $destination_file scp://$username:[email protected]//path/to/fileshare/$destination_file
delete /force $destination_file
I know there is probably a better way to do this but I am new to this so this is what I got. I save the running configuration to the flash, rename this file with todays date, delete the original file (to not take up room on the flash), send the file with the date over scp to the fileshare, and delete said file from flash. My issue is that I am forced to press "enter" on saving a file to flash. Is there any way around this? So far I have not been able to find a way around this as anything I type in (\r or \r\n) with be used as the filename.
The below was written by Kenchiken, originally added as a self-answer edited into the question.
What I did was archive the running configuration and set the path for my file server and set the trigger to "write memory". The archive command automatically appends a date/time to the file. I then set up a kron session to run once a week which will run the "write memory" command and trigger the archive.