[Cisco] command and CDR log backup by FTP (gw-accounting file)

Below command has been tested with ISR4331 devices. 

1. check Cisco device file size command : 

a. show current folder

dir flash: 

b. show all folder and files

dir flash

2. check file only start with "cdr."

dir flash:cdr.*

3. Remove file (Add option [/recursive /force] when you delete file is not recovering free space)

delete /recursive /force  flash:cdr.*

4. check subfolder file

dir flash:\tracelogs

5. example for log back to ftp

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/voice/cdr/developer/manual/cdrdev/cdrcsv.html#marker-1163166

enable

conf t

gw-accounting file

primary ftp 192.168.1.51/cisco/cdr username cisco password xxxxx

secondary sftp 192.168.1.52/cisco/cdr username cisco password xxxxx

acct-template callhistory-detail

maximum buffer-size  30

maximum retry-count 3

(note : if these setting is not working. check these area, FTP password can not be used @ and some of special characters for this command. Second, ftp location is case sensitive. Please check your upper and lower case of location when you see the permission error.  you can test FTP connection by copy running-config ftp command. See the below area for this.)

secondary is optional command for when primary is fail. 

If you didn't input this, "secondary ifs flash:cdr." is default. And it will save flash local file and file is start with cdr. 

192.168.1.51/cisco/cdr mean is ftp server is 192.168.1.51 and folder name is cisco. save the file start with cdr

"cdr-format compact" is another option to see categories will be compact. 

default setting 

maximum fileclose-timer 1440 (60-1440)

maximum cdrflush-timer 60

file close-timer need to 5 mins higher than cdrflush-timer. 

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after setup, we need to run below command to close current log file and reset save location. 

enable

file-acct flush with-close

file-acct reset

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copy running -config to FTP location command  example

copy running-config ftp

Address or name of remote host []? 192.168.1.52

Destination filename [midway-4331-confg]? cisco/runningconfig.txt

Writing cisco/runningconfig.txt !

66017 bytes copied in 0.555 secs (118950 bytes/sec)

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check changed configuration start with gw-accounting file command 

show run | begin gw-accounting file