Setting up scheduled backup with FTP not working

[JPR]

Hi all,

I'm trying to configure a scheduled backup as explained here: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/R82/WebAdminGuides/EN/CP_R82_Gaia_AdminGuide/Content/Topics-GAG...

However, I can't get it to work, as the username field doesn't seem to support '\'.

In order to FTP I need to define the domain as DOMAIN\USERNAME. But that doesn't work when doing it from the GAiA Portal.

It has removed the '\':

However, if I PuTTY into the management server and FTPs it works fine:

[Lesley]

Try to do the same via clish, the \ is a special character. Also I recommend not to use FTP and change to SCP for security reasons.

add backup-scheduled name <BACKUP_NAME> ftp ip <FTP_SERVER_IP> path <UPLOAD_PATH> username "DOMAIN\USERNAME" password <PASSWORD>

Does <username> only not work? 

[JPR]

Hi Lesley,

When I did it the last time, it didn't setting it up in clish either.

I will try again tomorrow.

And I will consider SCP, look into what the possibilities are.

And lastly, no using just my username doesn't work. Can't tell you why, probably an internal network thing, but not sure.

/ Jesper

[Lesley]

If you keep FTP, you can make a tcpdump and load it in wireshark, then for sure you can see what is wrong. With SCP this is not possible

[PhoneBoy]

The \ character is probably being treated an escape character.
Try using two backslashes and see if that works. 

[JPR]

Unfortunately same result. It removes the backslashes so I end up with DOMAINUSERNAME and not DOMAIN\USERNAME whether I use one or two of them.