This would be handy, especially when companies develop a VPN solution,
and want to distribute client VPN profiles, like openvpn. the user
receives a bundle via USB in the security office containing that user's

cert/key.

If one could develop the working profile, export in some editable
format, batch edit - could be really

efficient.





On 31.05.2017 16:25, Alex Ferm wrote:
>
> 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 The dconf/gconf methods from the past are no longer valid.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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