Backing up switch configuration

Backing up current configuration of the switch in text format.

Back up configuration

To create a new text-based configuration file, complete the following steps:

  1. Log in to the switch as Admin.

  2. (switch (config) #) Save the configuration to a text file.

    configuration text generate active running save my-filename
    

Copy configuration to external location

(switch (config) #) To upload a text-based configuration file from a switch to an external file server, run the following command:

configuration text file my-filename upload scp://root@my-server/root/tmp/my-filename

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