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Configuration File Backup and Restoration 443

The configuration file backup and restoration feature enables you to perform the 
following tasks:

1 Copy the current configurations on switch to a file on a TFTP server as a backup.

2 Download the configuration file backed up on the TFTP server to switch, and set this 

file as the configuration file that will be used upon next start.

Before performing the following operations, you should first start the TFTP server and 
make sure the switch can communicate with the TFTP server normally.

Perform the following operations in user view.

FTP is a common way to transmit files on the Internet and IP network. Before the 
World Wide Web (WWW), files were transmitted in the command line mode and FTP 
was the most popular application. Even now, FTP is still used widely, while most users 
transmit files using e-mail and Web. 

FTP, a TCP/IP protocol on the application layer, is used for transmitting files between a 
remote server and a local host. 

The Switch provides the following FTP services:

■

FTP server: You can run FTP client program to log in the server and access the files 
on it. 

■

FTP client: After connected to the server through running the terminal emulator or 
Telnet on a PC, you can access the files on it, using FTP command.

Figure 112   FTP Configuration

Table 483   Back up and restore configuration file

Back up the current configurations on 
one specified switch or all the switches 
in the fabric to a file on a TFTP server.

backup { unit unit-id | fabric } 
current-configuration to 
tftp-address file-name

Optional

Download configuration the file 
backed up on a TFTP server to switch 
and set the file to the configuration 
file used upon next startup of switch

restore { unit unit-id | fabric } 
startup-configuration from 
tftp-address file-name

Optional

Switch

PC

Network

Switch

Switch

PC

Network