Meru Technical Note - How do I Back Up and Restore the configuration of my controller

[gkaur]

Description

How do I Back Up and Restore the Configuration of my Controller?

Scope

KB ARTICLE TYPE: Configuration

RELATED PRODUCTS: MC1000, MC1500, MC3000, MC3200, MC4100, MC4200, MC5000

RELATED SOFTWARE VERSIONS: All versions

KEYWORDS: configuration, Backup, copy, ftp

Solution
Backing up your saved configuration to offbox (remote location)

If you are upgrading an existing N+1 configuration, this must be done for each Master controller:

First copy the running config as some backup file by using the below command

controller#copy running-config backupconfig

Then copy the backupconfig file out off the box

controller# copy backupconfig  ftp://user:password@offbox-ipaddress/backupconfig .

Restoring your saved configuration from the offbox (remote location)

To restore a configuration to the saved version:

1. Copy the backup configuration back to the controller: 
   controller# copy ftp://user:passsword@offbox-ipaddress/backupconfig .
2. Copy the saved configuration file to the running configuration file: 
   controller# copy backupconfig running-config
3. Save the running configuration to the start-up configuration: 
   controller# copy running-config startup-config