Cisco Catalyst 9500 Manual page 244

Compressing the Configuration File
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Examples
The following example compresses a 129-KB configuration file to 11 KB:
Device# configure terminal
Device(config)# service compress-config
Device(config)# end
Device# copy tftp://172.16.2.15/tokyo-confg system:running-config
Configure using tokyo-confg from 172.16.2.155? [confirm] y
Booting tokyo-confg from 172.16.2.155:!!! [OK - 874/16000 bytes]
Device# copy system:running-config nvram:startup-config
Building configuration...
Compressing configuration from 129648 bytes to 11077 bytes
[OK]
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Command or Action
service compress-config
Example:
Device(config)# service compress-config
end
Example:
Device(config)# end
Do one of the following:
• Use FTP, RCP, or TFTP to copy the new
configuration.
• configure terminal
Example:
Device# configure terminal
copy system:running-config
nvram:startup-config
Example:
Device(config)# copy
system:running-config
nvram:startup-config
Managing Configuration Files
Purpose
Specifies that the configuration file be
compressed.
Exits global configuration mode.
Enters the new configuration:
• If you try to load a configuration that is
more than three times larger than the
NVRAM size, the following error message
is displayed:
"[buffer overflow - file-size /buffer-size bytes]."
When you have finished changing the
running-configuration, save the new
configuration.