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The dconf/gconf methods from the past are no longer valid.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!
Thanks
-Greg
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