McDATA® 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem Command Line Interface Guide (AA-RWEJA-TE, November 2006)

Back up and restore a switch configuration

Backing up and restoring a configuration is useful to protect your work or for use as a template in

configuring other switches. Backing up and restoring the switch configuration involves the following:

• Creating the backup file, page 36

• Downloading the configuration file, page 36

• Restoring the configuration file, page 36

Creating the backup file

The Config Backup command creates a file on the switch, named configdata. This file can be used

to restore a switch configuration only from the command line interface; it cannot be used to restore a switch

using McDATA Web Server or Element Manager.

McDATA4GbSAN #> config backup

The configdata file contains the following switch configuration information:

• All named switch configurations including port, switch, port threshold alarm, and zoning configurations

components.

• All SNMP and network information defined with the Set Setup command.

• The zoning database includes all zone sets, zones, and aliases.

• The security database except the group primary and secondary secrets.

See the ”Config command” on page 100.

Downloading the configuration file

You use FTP to download the configdata file to your workstation for safe keeping and to upload the file

back to the switch for the restore function. To download the configdata file, open an FTP session on the

switch and login with the account name images and password images. Transfer the file in binary mode

with the Get command, as shown in the following example:

>ftp ip_address

user:images

password: images

ftp>bin

ftp>get configdata

xxxxx bytes sent in xx secs.

ftp>quit

You should rename the configdata file on your workstation with the switch name and date, for example,

config_switch_169_10112003.

Restoring the configuration file

The restore operation begins with FTP to upload the configuration file from the workstation to the switch,

then finishes with a Telnet session and the Config Restore command. To upload the configuration file,

config_switch_169_10112003 in this case, open and FTP session with account name images and

password images. Transfer the file in binary mode with the Put command as shown in the following

example:

ftp ip_address

user:images

password: images

ftp> bin

ftp> put config_switch_169_10112003 configdata

Local file config_switch_169_10112003

Remote file configdata

ftp>quit