Sun Microsystems 5602 User Manual

A – Command Line Interface
Working with Switch Configurations

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Backing up and restoring a configuration is useful to protect your work or for use 
as a template in configuring other switches. The Config Backup command creates 
a file on the switch, named configdata. This file can be used to restore a switch 
configuration only from the command line interface; it cannot be used to restore a 
switch using SANsurfer Switch Manager.

SANbox Manager  #> admin start

SANbox Manager (admin) #> config backup

The configdata file contains all of the switch configuration information including 
the following:

„

All named switch configurations including the default configuration. This 
includes port, switch, port threshold alarm, and zoning configuration 
components.

„

All SNMP and network information defined with the Set Setup command.

„

The zoning database included all zone sets, zones, and aliases

You use FTP to download the configdata file to your workstation for safe keeping 
and to upload the file back to the switch for the restore function. To download the 
configdata file, open an FTP session on the switch and login with the account 
name images and password images. Transfer the file in binary mode with the Get 
command as shown:

>ftp ip_address

user:images

password: images

ftp>bin

ftp>get configdata

    xxxxx bytes sent in xx secs.

ftp>quit

You should rename the configdata file on your workstation with the switch name 
and date, config_switch_169_10112003, for example.