Manually Archiving The Running Configuration; Rolling Back Configuration - HP 5920 series Fundamentals Configuration Manual

To enable automatic configuration archiving:
Step
1. Enter system view.
2. Enable automatic
configuration archiving and
set the archiving interval.

Manually archiving the running configuration

To save system resources, disable automatic configuration archiving and manually archive the
configuration if the configuration will not be changed very often. You can also manually archive
configuration before performing complicated configuration tasks. Then, you can use the archive for
configuration recovery after the configuration attempt fails.
Make sure you have set an archive path and file name prefix before performing this task.
Perform the following task in user view:
Task
Manually archive the running configuration.

Rolling back configuration

To avoid a rollback failure, follow these guidelines:
Make sure the replacement configuration file is created by using the configuration archive function
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or the save command on the local device.
If the configuration file is not created on the local device, make sure the command lines in the
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configuration file are fully compatible with the local device.
The replacement configuration file is not encrypted.
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To perform a configuration rollback:
Step
1. Enter system view.
2. Roll the running configuration
back to the configuration
defined by a configuration
file.
The configuration rollback function might fail to reconfigure some commands in the running configuration
for one of the following reasons:
• A command cannot be undone because prefixing the undo keyword to the command does not
result in a valid undo command. For example, if the undo form designed for the A [B] C command
Command
system-view
archive configuration interval minutes
Command
archive configuration
Command
system-view
configuration replace file filename
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Remarks
N/A
By default, this function is
disabled.
To view configuration archive
names and their archiving time,
use the display archive
configuration command.
Remarks
N/A
The specified configuration file
must not be encrypted.