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It is my experience that the easiest way to "backup" a connection
is just to copy its keyfile. I work exclusively with system
connections, so that may not be as easy with user connections. It
also appears that nmcli has import/export support for VPN
connections. If VPN connections are all you care about, you could
probably get away with a simple bash script that finds and exports
VPN connections and a similar script to re-import them on the
destination host.
On 05/31/2017 07:45 AM, Greg Oliver
wrote:
I have emailed a couple times about backing up
connections since I have close to 100 VPNs I would
like to restore when I upgrade my OS. The dconf/gconf
methods from the past are no longer valid.
I am willing to put in the work (since it is an obvious
pain to do 2x a year when I upgrade) to write (I know
python, perl and all shells) scripts to backup/restore
connections. I see there are python bindings, but there
are also a lot of unknowns (user or system connections,
etc..).
Is this something that would gain traction, or is it
always going to be a moving target? I assume python
bindings would not change (much like the kernel ABIs), but
I obviously do not know.
In the past I have used dconf, but the connections are no
longer stored there, so you see my dilemma.
If this sounds like something the network manager devs are
interested in, let me know - otherwise I will figure out how
to roll my own. It is an unusual use case I know, but I work
with our clients through VPN connections all day every day, so
it would save me quite a bit of time to be able to carry them
over from upgrade to upgrade, etc..
If this does not seem like something important, I will just do
something local. TIA!
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