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Startup and Running config backup frequency

The I.T. director feels nightly backups are a little excessive. He thinks once a week or even once a month would be plenty adequate.

I am looking for justification and or reasoning on why I would want to do nightly backups of the startup and running configuration files of my 150+ network devices.

All opinions would be appreciated.

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superfly

I agree with the IT director. I only do backups weekly. I also use Realtime Config Change Detection so it will backup the running config when someone makes a change.

I would do nightly backups if more than 50% of the configs changed on a daily basis. Then I would not use Realtime Detection.

rkrvaric

We do nightly backups of both.

We will have a device suddenly reboot due to difference circumstances, or something suddenly not work properly, and I always go back to my daily "change" email and it will tell me what was different from the night before.

It has allowed me to quickly bring a site back up.