Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 4.x Administration Guide

Network switch configuration back up and restore

Back up and restore running configuration of the Cisco and Dell switches.

1. Connect to the Cisco Nexus or Dell PowerSwitch switch, either via console cable, Telnet or SSH using admin credentials, type #copy running-config scheme://server/[url/]filename.
   For the scheme argument, you can enter tftp:,ftp:, scp:, or sftp:.
   The server argument is the address or name of the remote server, and the URL argument is the path to the source file on the remote server. The server, URL, and file name arguments are case sensitive.
   For example:
   switch# copy running-config tftp://10.10.10.1/sw1-run-config.bak
   switch# copy running-configuration scp://root:calvin@10.11.10.12/tmp/backup.txt
2. Restore the network configuration, connect to the Cisco Nexus or Dell PowerSwitch switch, either via console cable, Telnet or SSH using admin credentials, type #copy running-config scheme://server/[url/]filename running- config.
   For the scheme argument, you can enter tftp:,ftp:, scp:, or sftp:.
   The server argument is the address or name of the remote server, and the URL argument is the path to the source file on the remote server. The server, URL, and file name arguments are case sensitive.
   For example:
   switch# copy tftp://10.10.10.1/my-config running-config
   switch# copy scp://root:calvin@10.11.10.12/tmp/backup.txt running-configuration