Did you know you can backup your running-config or startup-config via ssh? I’ve been backing up configurations via TFTP for a long time but only recently started using SSH.
Here’s how to do it. If you have a Linux/Unix server that comes pre-installed with a SSH server handy just run the following:
Router#copy run ? archive: Copy to archive: file system flash: Copy to flash: file system ftp: Copy to ftp: file system http: Copy to http: file system https: Copy to https: file system ips-sdf Update (merge with) IPS signature configuration null: Copy to null: file system nvram: Copy to nvram: file system pram: Copy to pram: file system rcp: Copy to rcp: file system running-config Update (merge with) current system configuration scp: Copy to scp: file system startup-config Copy to startup configuration syslog: Copy to syslog: file system system: Copy to system: file system tftp: Copy to tftp: file system
Answer the regular prompts regarding the source and destination and that’s it!
Router#copy run scp:\\ssh.alfredtong.com Address or name of remote host [ssh.alfredtong.com]? Destination username [atong]? Destination filename [ROUTER]? Writing ROUTER.config Password:
You can do this the other way around by copying from the ssh server back to your router too.
What’s neat is this works in conjunction with scheduled automatic backups using the archive command!
