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The Backup Flows feature allows you to define Custom Backup Flows, which will be executed on Devices during backup Backup.
Normally a built-in Flow from the Device Driver would be used, but you can override this using Custom Flows to specify exactly how a device should be backed up.

Flows can be assigned to a specific vendorVendor, device type Device Type or Tag, similar to Backup Filters.

Creating a Backup Flow

During the Backup Flow creation process, you create the entire Flow in as a series of steps, and . When a Backup job occurs on a targeted device, during Device communication , these steps will be sent to the device in sequential order. Each step represents a specific command will to be sent to the Device. For each "Send command" step, it is possible to define the behavior that will be performed if the command fails. There are 2 options:

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It is also possible to select whether each command's output should be included in the final backup. You can check "Exclude output from Backup" if you don't want the output of this particular command to be consumed into the actual device backup. This is useful for commands you want to run pre or post Backup.

In addition to commands, steps can be added to a Flow to switch the device into enable Enable (user-exec) or configure Configure mode, and no more than one of these each can be added to a flow.

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