Cisco – Automatic configuration backup
Posted by Josh on Mon 16 Apr 2007Categories: Cisco , Cisco Routers , Windows - [20] Comments
The Cisco IOS configuration archive is intended to provide a mechanism to store, organize, and manage an archive of Cisco IOS configuration files in order to enhance the configuration rollback capability provided by the configure replace command. – Cisco.com This tutorial also demonstrates installing an ftp server on Windows 2000/XP/2003.
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April 16th, 2007 at 8:15 am
thank u very much….it’s really helpful
where are u learn this tips for cisco?
thanks again
April 16th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Great tip !!!!
Keem them comming !
April 29th, 2007 at 9:34 am
I had never heard of either the archive feature or “config replace” before. Keep up the good work!
May 27th, 2007 at 7:42 am
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July 23rd, 2007 at 6:58 am
Good utility works fine !
July 31st, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Cisco’s documentation refers to being able to optionally time stamp the archive, instead of using a sequence number. Any ideas on how this is done?
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6441/products_command_reference_chapter09186a00804a8ca0.html#wp1136524
August 1st, 2007 at 12:37 am
This is a new one to me. I will look into it though.
August 8th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
[...] This tutorial combines a couple previous tutorials: Automatic configuration backups with ftp and How To use SCP with Cisco routers. [...]
September 26th, 2007 at 1:02 am
Is it possible to make same at 6500 series?
There is no archive command:
core(config)#ar?
arap arp
October 14th, 2007 at 4:34 am
this ios versions only
12.3(4)T, 12.2(25)S, 12.3(14)T, 12.2(27)SBC, 12.2(33)SRA
March 26th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
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July 27th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
To use the timestamps you have to append “$t” to your filename. However it puts the time format in the following:
Jul-28-05:10:23.794
Thus windows will not read this, all you will get is “23.794″ followed but -1 or whatever sequence number you are upto.
When I deployed this a month ago I was having great difficulty with the “time-period” command, it never worked
Here is how I managed to get scheduling working:
kron occurrence backup at 2:30 1 recurring
policy-list backup
!
kron policy-list backup
cli archive config
This backs up my config on the 1st of every month at 2:30am. You can also use the EEM (embedded event manager) to do something similar.
Hope this helps
July 30th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
[...] videos on brainbump.net last Friday and noticed a different take on a tutorial I did regarding automatic configuration backups with the ‘archive’ command. While watching the video, I learned a new trick. The file name in the ‘path’ [...]
July 31st, 2008 at 6:03 pm
what was the trick?
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Darren,
The trick was that I didn’t know you could use the $h and $t variables in the path command.
Very nice for staging templates.
Josh
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Josh,
I didn’t know about the $h variable. Very handy to save from typing in the hostname lol.
Cheers mate
August 26th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Hi, Thanks for your information. Keep it up bro.
March 31st, 2009 at 12:58 am
How can i autoconfiguration Cisco 2950 with IOS versio 12.1?Any help?
Thanks
March 5th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
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June 25th, 2010 at 6:39 am
Hi Guys,
Is there a way to make it work using sftp instead of ftp? Seems like impossible but whould appreciate any help.
Thanks.