Re: Backup CISCO config to disk?

Mitchell B. Wagers ( (no email) )
Sun, 08 Feb 1998 16:54:25 -0800

I wasn't shooting you down, don't take what I said personal. I feel the
facts need to be stated and it wasn't meant to disrespect your
comments/suggestions, that's why I left your name out of it!

At 04:44 PM 2/8/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Yeah, I'm sure that there may be some "missinterpretations" in the
>Ascii codes. I haven't found one yet and I am managing a 7505, about a
>dozen of 2600 series and 4 1600series and a couple PIX firewalls.
>
> Never had a problem!
>
>.Endre
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>Mitchell B. Wagers wrote:
>>
>> This is fine, but before people start doing this they need to know about
>> some specific attributes about 3270/telnet/vt100 and regards to potential
>> problems.
>> Cutting and pasting a config into a telnet session can cause very unneeded
>> results:
>>
>> 1. Mis-interpretation of the ASCII string by the Cisco, even via Notepad or
>> PFE.
>>
>> 2. This doesn't work with all Cisco boxes. Cutting and pasting 12mb, or
>> however large in bytes, Config/ACL into a Cisco router can cause...well,
>> problems.
>>
>> 3. Most of all, be aware this can get you in trouble.
>>
>> However, this does work decently well with small configs. If you want to
>> try it, it's up to you!
>>
>> At 03:23 PM 2/8/98 -0800, you wrote:
>> >We do this a very simple way. Set telnet to log session. Do a "wr t"
>> >save the log file just created to disk and when you need it again just
>> >enter config mode and copy and paste it back. If you know where the disk
>> >is and labeled it properly, the whole process takes about 30 seconds.
>> >You can't beat that and you can do it from any Telnet app.
>> >
>> >.Endre
>> >
>> >
>> >John Lange wrote:
>> >>
>> >> HI All & Thanks
>> >>
>> >> Is there a way to backup a CISCO 2501 config to disk? Then is there
a way
>> >> to restore it? From an NT or 95 machine?
>> >>
>> >> I just realized that if this baby goes down, or I screw something up, it
>> >> will take a long time to reproduce my routing tables and config.
>> >>
>> >> Any help would be appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> JOhn :}
>> >>
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