No automatic ftp from Voyager

[aallsopp]

I'm trying to do automated backups from the Voyager interface and although ftp works from the shell, it doesn't work when set up in Voyager. Nothing in /var/logs to indicate why. The destination site is internal and allows anonymous logins. Manual ftp from Voyager also doesn't work.

[Youngy]

Hi,

This is probably not the answer you were looking for but I spent some time on these forums (and others) in the past with the same issue and collectively we were unable to come up with a solution.

I believe it is a straight out bug with the voyager interface and as you know the shell works. So I just use the shell from time to time to take a backup.

Cheers

PS Others may have a different experience as this was a while ago

[aallsopp]

I don't mind doing a manual transfer from time to time, but it seems strange that out of two identical Nokia boxes with the same version of IPSO and NGX, that one would work and the other wouldn't.

Oh well....

[kva.kva]

Sometimes automatic features doesn't working :)

You can create your own simple shell script for ftp and add it to cron for example.

[IaKing]

Have you checked that the firewall policy allows that transfer?

Check netstat and the process list when doing a manual transfer to see if it is doing something.

I think it's better to do you're backups using an ssh cron job (with rsa/dsa keys) :
ie: pull the backups from the management box.. not pushing from the firewall :)

if you're doing automated transfer's from the firewall if the firewall becomes compromised.. then so has an account somewhere else.

Better to pull .. than push :)

Iain