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Umesh
Explorer II
May 29, 2026
Question

Fortigate permanent trail license for automation stitch for backup

  • May 29, 2026
  • 3 replies
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Hi there,

 

Has anyone used Fortigate permanent license to take backup using automation stitch.

 

Could you please if it works If am using permanent trail license feature.

 

 

Thank you in advacned.

3 replies

msanjaypadma
Staff
Staff
May 29, 2026

Hi ​@Umesh ,

It should work, executing backup commands works as intended.

Thanks,
Mayur Padma

sjoshi
Staff
Staff
May 30, 2026

Hi ​@Umesh,

 

You can refer below article to understand on how to setup automation stitches for backup
https://community.fortinet.com/fortigate-3/technical-tip-automated-configuration-backups-with-variable-names-based-on-the-date-108146
https://community.fortinet.com/fortigate-3/technical-tip-how-to-send-automated-backups-of-the-configuration-from-a-fortigate-with-an-automation-stitch-using-tftp-ftp-or-sftp-server-and-a-recommendation-for-configuring-a-linux-machine-99783

Thanks, Salon
Yurisk
SuperUser
SuperUser
May 30, 2026

It works on the trial license you have just fine, many auto-stitches in my Github repo I run on such license/Fortigate-VM.

Edit: Of course as long as you don’t need features that are not available on such license, e.g. back to external FTP server will work, but back up to SCP server may fail (but not necessarily, depends also on server).