Allied Telesis AT-8100 Series - Manual (Page 563)

AT-8100 Switch Command Line User’s Guide
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Creating a New Boot Configuration File
It is a good idea to periodically make copies of the current configuration of
the switch so that you can return the switch to an earlier configuration, if
necessary. For this there is the COPY RUNNING-CONFIG command in
the Privileged Exec mode. The command has this format:
copy running-config filename .cfg
The name of the new boot configuration file, specified with the FILENAME
parameter, can be from 1 to 16 alphanumeric characters, not including the
extension “.cfg”. If you specify the name of an existing file, the new file
overwrites the existing file.
It is important to understand that this command does not change the
switch’s active boot configuration file. That file remains unchanged. All this
command does is create a new boot configuration file of the current
parameter settings in the file system. If you want to change the active boot
configuration file, use the BOOT CONFIG-FILE command, explained in
“Specifying the Active Boot Configuration File” on page 561.
This example of the COPY RUNNING-CONFIG command creates a new
boot configuration file called “sw_sales_archive.cfg” in the file system:
awplus> enable
awplus# copy running-config sw_sales_archive.cfg