Backup And Restoration; Backing Up The Configuration Files - Nortel Secure Router 8000 Series Routine Maintenance

Nortel Secure Router 8000 Series
Routine Maintenance
Loopback test on optical interfaces
When you conduct a loopback test on the optical interface with the tail fiber, add an attenuator
to:

3.2 Backup and restoration

For the router, backup and restoration involves:

3.2.1 Backing up the configuration files

You can back up the configuration files in the following ways:
Copying the screen directly
In the CLI interface, run the display current-configuration command. Copy all the display
to txt documents, and back up the configuration files to the hard disk of the maintenance
terminal.
Backing up the configuration files through TFTP
Step 1 Directly copy the configuration files in the Flash.
This action backs up the current configuration files that you store in the Flash of the router.
After startup of the router, use the following commands to back up the configuration files in
the Flash of the router.
<Nortel> copy vrpcfg.zip Flash:/backup.zip
Copy Flash:/vrpcfg.zip to Flash:/backup.zip?[Y/N]:y
100% complete
Info: Copied file Flash:/vrpcfg.zip to Flash:/backup.zip...Done
Step 2 Assign an IP address to the router.
The router acts as the TFTP client.
Connect the router to the maintenance terminal. Establish the Telnet environment and assign
an IP addresses to the interface. Ensure that the IP address of the router interface and the IP
address of the TFTP server are in the same network segment.
Step 3 Start up the TFTP server application program.
Start up the TFTP server application in the PC. Set the path, the IP address, and the port
number of the TFTP server to download the configuration files.
Step 4 Transfer the configuration files.
On the CLI interface, run the tftp command. For example:
Issue 5.3 ( )
19 May 2009
Prevent the optical module from overload due to received high optical power
Prevent the optical module from being damaged due to high optical power that is
received

Backing up the configuration files

Restoring the configuration files
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