Backup UBNT edgeswitch over SSH

backup.py

"""Usage: ./backup.py login@host
"""

import sys
import pexpect
import getpass

child = pexpect.spawn('ssh ' + sys.argv[1])
while True:
    match = child.expect(['password:', '\(.*\) >'])
    if match == 0:
        password = getpass.getpass('Password: ')
        child.sendline(password)
    else:
        break
child.sendline('enable')
child.expect('Password:')
child.sendline(password)
child.expect('#')
child.sendline('show startup-config')

while True:
    match = child.expect(['^[^\r\n]*\r?\n',
                          '^--More-- or \(q\)uit', 
                          '\r                  \r',
                          '^\(.*\) #'])
    line = child.match.group(0).decode('utf-8').strip()
    if match == 0:
        print(line)
    elif match == 1:
        child.send(' ')
    elif match == 2:
        pass
    else:
        break

Thanks for this. Havent tried it, but I'm thinking/hoping you/I can avoid dealing with the pagination by sending a "terminal length 0" after login.