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A decade ago I worked for a shop that needed to routinely back up 100+ cisco switches and routers and refused to pay for solarwinds. I setup a light weight freebsd vm to run this open source software: https://shrubbery.net/rancid/ (Rancid: Really Awesome New Cisco config Differ) and set it to scrape all the equipment every 12 errors. Source: about 1 year ago
Anyways Rancid does support cvs, svn, and git. Though I have only used it with cvs. Basically what it does, is checks out the configuration, downloads the configuration with other information about the state of the device, commits the configurations(which only changed ones will be in the latest check-ins, and then it can send an email of the changes. Source: over 1 year ago
RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System), Subversion or Git to maintain history of changes. Source: over 1 year ago
If you want to use this as an opportunity to learn Ansible, or you don't want to add another tool to the stack, this is a fine use case. Otherwise, I would consider using either RANCID or Oxidized for configuration backup. Source: almost 2 years ago
Before I knew about RANCiD (https://shrubbery.net/rancid), I wrote my own Perl application to telnet into a Foundry Networks switch and TFTP its configuration to my computer so I could back it up. At a future employer, I rewrote another coworkers Perl application that collected SNMP values from devices and did stuff with it (forget what all I did then). Source: about 2 years ago
Or run a decent setup to keep backups, like this one: https://github.com/ytti/oxidized. Source: 11 months ago
You didn't mention about brand of the switches, but majority of vendors is covered with Oxidized: https://github.com/ytti/oxidized Just configure it with git backend, and you have version control and device backups. Also, if you wish, there are bundled sone extra scripts that could report git changes via email. Source: 11 months ago
RANCID was great before Oxidized ;) Https://github.com/ytti/oxidized From description of Oxi: Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement! Source: about 1 year ago
If you're just looking to backup/inventory configs, give Oxidized a try https://github.com/ytti/oxidized. Source: about 1 year ago
What about the tried and trusted oxidized? Source: over 1 year ago
Unimus - Unimus is a Network Automation and Configuration management solution designed for fast deployment network-wide and ease of use. Unimus does not require learning any abstraction or templating languages, and does not require any coding skills.
GenieACS - A fast and lightweight TR-069 Auto Configuration Server (ACS)
NetDisco - Netdisco is an Open Source web-based network management tool first released publically in 2003.
Kiwi CatTools - Kiwi CatTools is a network automation and configuration management software that manage configurations from the desktop for network devices.
rConfig - rConfig is a free open source network device configuration management utility for network engineers...
Backbox.co - Automated backup and recovery for all your security and networking devices in one place.