Cisco Systems 1900 Series manual Saving Your Router Configuration

Chapter 5 Configuring the Router

Performing the Initial Configuration on the Router

The following display shows sample output for the ping command when you ping the IP hostname donald:

Router# ping donald

Type escape sequence to abort.

Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 192.168.7.27, timeout is 2 seconds:

!!!!!

Success rate is 100 percent, round-trip min/avg/max = 1/3/4 ms

Saving Your Router Configuration

This section describes how to avoid losing your configuration at the next system reload or power cycle by saving the running configuration to the startup configuration in NVRAM. The NVRAM provides 256KB of storage on the router.

SUMMARY STEPS

1.enable

2.copy running-config startup-config

DETAILED STEPS

	Command or Action	Purpose
Step 1
	enable	Enables privileged EXEC mode.
		• Enter your password if prompted.
	Example:
	Router> enable
Step 2
	copy running-config startup-config	Saves the running configuration to the startup
		configuration.
	Example:
	Router# copy running-config startup-config

Saving Backup Copies of Configuration and System Image

To aid file recovery and minimize downtime in case of file corruption, we recommend that you save backup copies of the startup configuration file and the Cisco IOS software system image file on a server.

SUMMARY STEPS

1.enable

2.copy nvram:startup-config {ftp: rcp: tftp:}

3.show {flash0flash1}:

4.copy {flash0flash1}: {ftp: rcp: tftp:}

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