Managing Configuration Changes; Backup And Restore Examples - D-Link DWS-1008 - AirPremier MobileLAN Switch Product Manual

Managing Configuration Changes

The backup command places the boot configuration file into the archive. (The boot configuration file
is the Configured boot configuration in the show boot command's output.) If the running configuration
contains changes that have not been saved, these changes are not in the boot configuration file and
are not archived. To make sure the archive contains the configuration that is currently running on the
switch, use the save config command to save the running configuration to the boot configuration file,
before using the backup command.
The restore command replaces the boot configuration on the switch with the one in the archive. The
boot configuration includes the configuration filename and the image filename to use after the next
switch restart. (These are the Configured boot image and Configured boot configuration files listed in
the show boot command's output.) The restore command does not affect the running image or the
running configuration.
If you want to use the configuration in the boot configuration file restored from an archive instead
of the configuration currently running on the switch, use the load config command to load the boot
configuration file, or restart the switch. If instead, you want to replace the configuration restored from the
archive with the running configuration, use the save config command to save the running configuration
to the boot configuration file.
Note: The next time the switch is restarted after the restore command is used, the switch uses the
boot configuration filename that was in use when the archive was created. If you change the boot
configuration filename after creating the archive, the new name is not used when the switch is restarted.
To use the new configuration, use the save config filename command, where filename is the name of
the boot configuration file restored from the archive, before you restart the switch. If you have already
restarted the switch, use the load config filename command to load the new configuration, then use
the save config filename command.
The following command creates an archive of the system-critical files and copies the archive directly to
a TFTP server. The filename in this example includes a TFTP server IP address, so the archive is not
stored locally on the switch.
DWS-1008# backup system tftp:/10.10.20.9/sysa_bak critical
success: sent 28263 bytes in 0.324 seconds [ 87231 bytes/sec]
The following command restores system-critical files on a switch, from archive sysa_bak:
DWS-1008# restore system tftp:/10.10.20.9/sysa_bak
success: received 11908 bytes in 0.150 seconds [ 79386 bytes/sec]
success: restore complete.
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