Cisco 7500 SERIES ROUTE SWITCH PROCESSOR 16 Specification Guide

Before the router executes the copy process, it displays the instructions you entered for confirmation. If
the instructions are not correct, enter n (no) and then press Return to end the process. To accept the
instructions, press Return, or press y and then press Return, and the system begins the copy process. In
the following example, the default is accepted:

Write file Router-confg on host 10.1.1.1? [confirm]

Writing Router-confg: !!!! [ok]

While the router copies the configuration to the remote host, it displays a series of exclamation points
(! ! !) or periods (. . .). The !!!! and [ok] indicate that the operation is successful. A series of periods (...)
and [timed out] or [failed] indicates a failure, which would probably be due to a network fault or the lack
of a writable, readable file on the remote file server.

If the display indicates that the process was successful (with the series of exclamation points [! ! !] and
[ok]), the copy process is complete. The configuration is safely stored in the temporary file on the remote
file server.

If the display indicates that the process failed (with the series of periods [. . .] as shown in the following
example):

Writing Router-confg .....

your configuration was not saved. Repeat the preceding steps, or select a different remote file server and
repeat the preceding steps.

To further ensure that the configuration file was copied correctly, use the show startup-config command
and look at the first line for the configuration file’s size. Compare it with the file you copied to the TFTP
server. Following is an example. (Take special note of the line preceded by >>.)

Router# show startup-config

>> Using 1186 out of 126968 bytes

!

version 11.1

hostname Router

Router#

After you upload the configuration file, you are prepared to replace the RSP. For more information see
the

. If you are unable to copy the configuration to a remote

host successfully, contact your network administrator or see the

This completes the procedure for copying the configuration file.

This section describes how to retrieve the saved configuration and copy it to NVRAM. Enter
configuration mode and specify that you will configure the router from the network. The system prompts
you for a host name and address, the name of the configuration file stored on the host, and confirmation
to reboot using the remote file.

You can access the router through a console terminal attached to the RSP16 console port, or you can
Telnet to the router from a remote terminal.