Problem:

Backup cisco configuration files automatically



Solution:


You can use the Cisco ‘archive’ command in global configuration mode to let the Cisco switch or router automatically save backups of your configuration file to a TFTP, FTP, HTTP HTTPS, SCP or RCP filesystem.

To configure automatic backup on to for example a TFTP server on write-memory just do this:

Switch(config)# archive
Switch(config-archive)# path tftp://10.0.0.1/ciscobackups/Switch
Switch(config-archive)# write-memory

The switch or router will now automatically archive a copy of your running configuration on 10.0.0.1

You can use show archive to verify backups.

Switch# show archive

The next archive file will be named tftp://10.0.0.1/ciscobackups/Switch-3
Archive # Name
0 tftp://10.0.0.1/ciscobackups/Switch-1
1 tftp://10.0.0.1/ciscobackups/Switch-2 <- Most Recent

And you can also use the EXEC command ‘configure replace‘ to take use of archived configuration files and rollback on to one of them.