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Backup JAMF System scripts using SwiftDialog GUI

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Back at it again with a (potentially) useful script.  

This script is designed to extract all of the system scripts from your JAMF server. Why do you want to do this?

  1. Make a backup of your scripts in case your existing backup files is missing/corrupted (or you don't have one!)
  2. You inhereited a JAMF server from another person, and this can do a "brain dump" so you can review the scripts.
  3. Why not? It is another example of what you can do with API scripts..

Source: https://github.com/ScottEKendall/JAMF-Pro-Scripts/tree/main/BackupJAMFScripts

 

Welcome screen

Process screen

Errors screen if problems found:

 

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    scottb
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    • scottb
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    • May 30, 2025

    Thanks, @ScottEKendall - this is a great idea, and I will actually use it now!

    scottb
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    scottb wrote:

    Thanks, @ScottEKendall - this is a great idea, and I will actually use it now!


    Worked great!  This is excellent... @ScottEKendall 

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    • ScottEKendall
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    • May 30, 2025

    Great!  now if I could just find the API key for the configuration scripts...I can do the same with that...

     

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    • June 2, 2025

    Thanks @ScottEKendall, looks like this could be very helpful to some!

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    Since I not a Jamf Connect customer it's not clear to me if this post is in the right product section, or was intended for the Jamf Pro section, so if it is posted correctly and refers to Jamf Connect specific scripts please ignore the rest of my post...

    @ScottEKendall Not to denigrate the interesting and useful tools you've posted, as well an informative body of Jamf Pro API and swiftDialog usage examples, but I'd recommend people looking for a GUI based JSS backup take a look at Jamf's own Replicator (formerly Jamf Migrator). It pretty much handles everything but Self Service icons (which one of your other recent posts covers) in a single tool that can both back up and restore/replicate a JSS configuration.

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    • June 2, 2025
    sdagley wrote:

    Since I not a Jamf Connect customer it's not clear to me if this post is in the right product section, or was intended for the Jamf Pro section, so if it is posted correctly and refers to Jamf Connect specific scripts please ignore the rest of my post...

    @ScottEKendall Not to denigrate the interesting and useful tools you've posted, as well an informative body of Jamf Pro API and swiftDialog usage examples, but I'd recommend people looking for a GUI based JSS backup take a look at Jamf's own Replicator (formerly Jamf Migrator). It pretty much handles everything but Self Service icons (which one of your other recent posts covers) in a single tool that can both back up and restore/replicate a JSS configuration.


    Although that is good for migration between servers, these utilities are for a standalone instance to extract info to a local backup drive…


    Scott Kendall

    macOS Support Engineering | Giant Eagle, Inc.

    scott.kendall@gianteagle.com



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    scottb
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    sdagley wrote:

    Since I not a Jamf Connect customer it's not clear to me if this post is in the right product section, or was intended for the Jamf Pro section, so if it is posted correctly and refers to Jamf Connect specific scripts please ignore the rest of my post...

    @ScottEKendall Not to denigrate the interesting and useful tools you've posted, as well an informative body of Jamf Pro API and swiftDialog usage examples, but I'd recommend people looking for a GUI based JSS backup take a look at Jamf's own Replicator (formerly Jamf Migrator). It pretty much handles everything but Self Service icons (which one of your other recent posts covers) in a single tool that can both back up and restore/replicate a JSS configuration.


    I've had lots of issues with Replicator and esp since enabling OIDC, in some cases, I can't even login...

    These allow me to just setup and run as needed, which is turning out to be better for me for now.

     

    sdagley
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    ScottEKendall wrote:
    Although that is good for migration between servers, these utilities are for a standalone instance to extract info to a local backup drive…


    Scott Kendall

    macOS Support Engineering | Giant Eagle, Inc.

    scott.kendall@gianteagle.com



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    Replicator will copy all configuration data from a JSS to a local drive.

    sdagley
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    scottb wrote:

    I've had lots of issues with Replicator and esp since enabling OIDC, in some cases, I can't even login...

    These allow me to just setup and run as needed, which is turning out to be better for me for now.

     


    @scottb  Please log any issues you've found with Replicator in the repo's Issues tracker.

    mattjerome
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    • June 2, 2025

     My go to is Rich Trouton's (as with most things)!

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    mattjerome wrote:

     My go to is Rich Trouton's (as with most things)!


    totally agree...some of my scripts are from the inspiration that I got from his site...

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