Asante Technologies 35516 user manual Copying Configuration Files to a Network Server

4.2.2 Copying Configuration Files to a Network Server

You can copy configuration files from the router to a file server using TFTP. You might wish to back up a current configuration file to a server before changing its contents, thereby allowing you to later restore the original configuration file from the server.

Important! TFTP is not a secure protocol. Your server IP address and configuration file name will not be protected over the public Internet. Use TFTP only on a trusted LAN connection.

To specify that the running or startup configuration file be stored on a TFTP network server, use the following commands in the EXEC mode (Note: Copying the startup configuration file to the current running configuration merges the two files. It is recommended that you keep a copy of the start-up configuration file before merging the two in case you want to revert back to the original startup configuration):

Router# copy startup-config ?

running-configUpdate (merge with) current system configuration tftp:[//A.B.C.D/filename] Copy to tftp: file system

OR

Router# copy running-config ?

startup-configCopy to startup configuration tftp:[//A.B.C.D/filename] Copy to tftp: file system

Router# copy running-config tftp

Enter TFTP Server IP Address [A.B.C.D]? Enter file name 'my-config' to copy?

Reply to any prompts for additional information or confirmation. The prompts will depend on how much information has been provided in the copy command and the current setting of the file prompt command.

The command can also look like this example:

Router# copy running-config tftp://192.168.0.1/my-config

Upload file ‘my-config’ to 192.168.0.1 from running-config? [y/n] y

Accessing tftp://192.168.0.1/my-config...

[OK] 487 bytes copied in time <1 sec

4.2.3 Copying Configuration Files from a Network Server to the IC35516

You can copy configuration files from a TFTP server to the running configuration or startup configuration of the router. You may want to do this for one of the following reasons:

1.To restore a previously backed up configuration file.

2.To use the same configuration file for another router. For example, you may add another router to your network and want it to have a similar configuration to the original router. By copying the file to the new router, you can change the relevant parts rather than re-creating the whole file.

3.To load the same configuration commands onto all the routers in your network so that they all have the same configurations.

The copy tftp running-configcommand loads the configuration files into the router as if you were typing the commands in at the command line. The router does not erase the existing running configuration before adding the commands unless a command in the copied configuration file replaces a command in the existing configuration file. For example, if the copied configuration file contains a different IP address in a particular command than the existing configuration, the IP address in the copied configuration will be used. However, some commands in the existing configuration may not be replaced or negated. In this case, the resulting configuration file will be a mixture of the existing configuration file and the copied configuration file, with the copied configuration file having precedence.

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