I know you can schedule the server backup to SMB, FTP or SFTP but I thought it would be a nice addition to just simply have a save/export settings from the browser. We typically don't have a lot of config changes and we are using AD for our users so a periodic export of settings would be enough. Our current option is to find another server setup the share and the config a backup to that server. Just thought I may not be the only client that this would be enough.
there is not a button in the web interface, but it is possible to trigger the backup manually from the root shell just by typing "ft backup".
The manual backup and restore is in the console it can be started by typing "ft backup" and "ft restore".
I do have access to the console and run those commands. The manual backup options from the WebUI are what I would find additionally handy. "Run Backup Now" ideally would run the backup job using the pre-configured destination much like "ft backup" does. "Export Config" ideally would run a backup job of just the config and then make it available for download via the WebUI "Export Config and Data" would do the same, but include data. This is probably more trouble than its worth since it could take up too much space with some configurations. We don't backup the data on ours as it is for temporary transfer only.
Another +1 - being able to back up the config seems a pretty essential thing, and I don't have a publicly accessible smb/ftp/sftp server, so what is one supposed to do to be able to backup the config??
I'll add a vote for the ability to trigger a backup from the WebUI to save the steps of firing up an SSH session just for ft backup when I'm already in the the WebAdmin for so many other things.
