Display The Running Configuration File; Saving The Running Configuration File; Loading The Startup Configuration File; Erasing The Startup Configuration File - Brocade Communications Systems Converged Enhanced Ethernet 8000 Administrator's Manual

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Configuration management tasks

Display the running configuration file

To display the running configuration, perform the following task from EXEC or privileged EXEC
mode.
Enter the show running-config command.

Saving the running configuration file

This tasks causes the running configuration to become the default configuration. To save the
running configuration, perform the following task from privileged EXEC mode.
Enter the copy command to copy the currently running configuration to the startup configuration.

Loading the startup configuration file

If you wish to reverse the changes to the running configuration, this task reloads the default startup
configuration, overwriting the running configuration.
To load the default configuration, perform the following command from privileged EXEC mode.

Erasing the startup configuration file.

NOTE
This task does not affect the running configuration file.
To erase the startup configuration, perform the following command from privileged EXEC mode.

Archiving the running configuration file

This tasks allows you to archive the running configuration to an archive folder on an FTP site, so
that it can be stored without changing the startup configuration. To archive the running
configuration file, perform the following task from privileged EXEC mode.
Enter the copy command to archive the running configuration file.

Restore an archived running configuration file

To restore the running configuration, perform the following task from privileged EXEC mode.
Enter the copy command to restore the running configuration file.
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switch#show running-config
switch#copy running-config startup-config
switch#copy startup-config running-config
switch#write erase
switch#copy running-config
ftp://jsmith:password@10.24.48.51/archive/config_file]
switch#copy running-config
ftp://jsmith:password@10.24.48.51/archive/config_file]
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