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[m0n0backup.exe]

Hi all,
I try to backup my monowall (1.34) with the tool m0n0backup.exe from a windows machine.
All times the XML output is 1 KB and contains only 1 line:
Bad request token. Please make sure cookies are enabled and try again.

When I backup from the webgui everything works fine.

Any idea?

regards
Det

Where are you getting this tool from?

You may have problems with tools like this because m0n0wall has made changes to its webgui interface and certain pages now require a valid CSRF magic token.

@Lee the tool is available on the tools page: http://m0n0.ch/wall/tools.php

Ahhh!  When I search google I only found it on some odd download page, so I had...  Questions...

Hi all,
thank you for fast reply, but is there any solution for using m0n0backup.
Or is there an other way to backup from a remote machine?

Tanks
Det

Hi,

You could use curl [1][2] in a batch file.

Pierre
[1] http://curl.haxx.se/
[2] http://ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/www/utilities/curl/

My first thought is "Why do you need a automated backup?"  How often is your configuration changing, and why?  I just pull a new backup when I am on the box changing something, and that is not very often...

Hi,

Like Lee, I don't see the point of doing automated backups.
But the original poster seems to need it, so here is a quick and dirty bash script that should do the trick :

Code:

#! /bin/bash

PROTO='http://'
if [ -x curl ]; then
echo "You need curl to run this script!"
fi
if [ $# -lt 1 -o $# -gt 2 ]; then
echo "usage: $0 <m0n0wall box's IP or hostname> [ssl]"
echo " ssl: if used, then curl will use https to access your box."
exit 1
elif [ $# -eq 2 -a "$2" = "ssl" ]; then
PROTO='https://'
fi
read -s -p "Enter admin password:" PASSWORD
CURL_OPTS="--basic --user admin:${PASSWORD} --insecure --stderr /dev/null"
IP="$1"
BACKUP_URL=${PROTO}${IP}/diag_backup.php
BACKUP_FILE="config-${IP}-$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S).xml"
echo -e "\nTrying to retrieve configuration from ${IP}..."
echo "Step 1 - Connecting to m0n0wall box to retrieve CSRF magic..."
CSRF=$(curl ${CURL_OPTS} ${BACKUP_URL} | \
grep '__csrf_magic' | \
sed "s#.*value=\"\(.*\)\".*#\1#")
if [ -z ${CSRF} ]; then
echo "Failed!"
exit 1
fi
echo "Done!"
echo "Step 2 - Downloading configuration from m0n0wall box..."
UPLOADED=$(curl ${CURL_OPTS} --referer ${BACKUP_URL} \
--form Submit=Download --form __csrf_magic=${CSRF} \
${BACKUP_URL} -o ${BACKUP_FILE}; echo $?)
if [ $UPLOADED -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Failed!"
exit 1
fi
echo "Done!"

Usage is simple :

pierre@tala:~/tmp$ ./m0n0backup.sh loki ssl
Enter admin password:
Trying to retrieve configuration from loki...
Step 1 - Connecting to m0n0wall box to retrieve CSRF magic...
Done!
Step 2 - Downloading configuration from m0n0wall box...
Done!
pierre@tala:~/tmp$ ls -lh config-*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pierre pierre 27K déc.  11 17:28 config-loki-20131211172816.xml


Hope it'll help...

Pierre