FortiGate Firewall Automated config backups to FTP server

The configuration looks fine.
How are you testing the configuration? Please use  "Test automation stitch"  option from "stitch" tab /right click on stitch. If you directly run the command on CLI, it won't have the event date/time parameters and the file name will be what you see now.

If the FTP server is windows based, then we cannot use "%%time%%" as windows don't allow file name with ":".
date and time works fine with linux based FTP server.

Also have a look at https://community.fortinet.com/t5/Support-Forum/backup-via-ftp/td-p/256544 

Automation Stich is 

config system automation-action     edit "automation script"         set action-type cli-script         set minimum-interval 0         set delay 0         set required enable         set script "execute backup config ftp /net-devices-auto-bkp-to-g-drive/bkp-%%hostname%%-%%date%%_%%time%%.conf FTP-Server FTP-user FTP-user-pwd"     next end config system automation-trigger 	edit "test"         set trigger-type scheduled         set trigger-frequency daily         set trigger-hour 5         set trigger-minute 5     next end config system automation-stitch edit "test"         set status enable         set trigger "test"         set action "automation script"     next end

 System Info is:

# get system status Version: FortiGate-100E v6.2.3,build1066,191218 (GA)  # execute date current date is: 2023-06-07  # execute time current time is: 05:56:32 last ntp sync:Fri Mar 31 11:06:42 2023

The backup file that gets stored in FTP server is :

bkp-%%hostname%%-%%date%%_%%time%%.conf

Hence, the hostname, date and time are not at all substituted by actual values

Also, we tried the same in versions 6.4.8 , 7.0.5 and the results are the same 

Hi @itsupport-amagi,

Please try %%log.date%% and %%log.time%% instead. Please refer to https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Automated-configuration-backups-with-variable/ta-p/212020

Regards,