Cisco TFTP

[autumn801]

Does anyone know how to save the configuration setup of a Cisco 2600 router in case it goes down? And how I can transfer it to another Cisco 2600 router?

Can I use TFTP for this?
What are the steps?

thanks

[RingoSaturn]

You can use TFTP - I can't remember the exact command, but I think it's simple enough that doing a TFTP ? on the prompt will semi-guide you through it.

The way I do it, is to bypass TFTP altogether. I open up a Hyperterminal session to it, then do a show run, then select all the text, then do a edit-copy, then past the text into a notepad document. The beauty of the Cisco config, are the exact commands it runs to configure itself on a boot.

In other words, if the router dies, and you buy replace it, you can simply Hyperterm into the new one, go into Config T mode, and literally copy and paste the text into it from your notepad doc, and it will run all the commands for you. A quick copy-run-start and you're back in business.

This also works for configuring multiple locations with very similar configs. I work for a company with 20 remote sites. To do the initial configs on the very similar routers, I just changed the IP addresses for each site in the notepad document, then ran it on the appropriate router.

hope that helps.