User manual

Wide Bank 28 DS3 - Release 2.4 July 2004 6-5
Configuration
Basic Configuration
Saving a Temporary Copy of Configuration
Use the temp copy command to place a temporary copy of the working configuration in volatile
storage, to be restored if the working copy becomes corrupted. One use for this command is when
you are changing the working configuration and want to easily return to the original configuration
if your changes do not work.
To save a copy of the configuration:
(A:Active)> temp copy
All current settings have been temporarily copied to RAM.
NOTE: This temporary copy, because it is in volatile storage, will be lost whenever
power is turned off. This temporary copy, saved by the temp copy command, should not
be considered a true backup copy. The working configuration and the factory defaults are
the only configurations that will survive a power cycle, because they are retained in non-
volatile memory.
Restoring a Temporarily Saved Configuration
Use a restore temp copy command to replace the current working configuration with the temporary
configuration previously saved using a temp copy command. If no temp copy command was
previously issued, or if power was lost, there will be no temporary configuration to load.
Saving the Configuration to a User File System
NOTE: Saving the configuration to a user file system, as well as restoring the
configuration requires that a TFTP server be running on the computer identified by the
“ipaddr” parameter of the save command.
A more secure copy of the working configuration can be saved to a user file system using TFTP, as
mentioned under Working Configuration. The save tftp ipaddr “filename” (include quotes)
command will save a copy of the working configuration with the specified file name on the
computer having the IP address stated in the command.
(A:Active)> save tftp ipaddr "filename"
Restoring Saved Configuration from User File System
If you have previously saved a copy of the configuration using the save tftp command, the file can
be retrieved using the restore tftp ipaddr “filename” command (see restore command in Chapter
9). The IP address and the filename string must match the ones used in the save command. The file
you receive is essentially a list of valid CLI commands that will set up the Wide Bank configuration
to match the snapshot.
(A:Active)> restore tftp ipaddr "filename"