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Auto Backup Cisco Router & Switch with Kron and FTP Server Posted by ethernuno on 05/04/2012 Automatic Backup Cisco Router & Switch with Kron and vsftpd FTP. Briefing: In Cisco routers or switches, Kron lets you schedule an automatic backup task to save your running-configs or startup-configs. Also useful to backup IOS images, boot from FTP, copy SDM/ASDM files, and more. In the first example ill configure kron to copy the running-config to startup-config, every Automatically. The second example ill configure kron to send backups of the running-config to vsftpd FTP server. Issues : In order to copy the running-config to startup-config we need to use write(wr) not “copy running-config startup-config”, this is because kron does not support interactive prompts and the “copy running-config startup-config” command requires interaction. It is important to remember this. Also, kron does not support configuration commands. As for sending files to v...