Technical Note: Backup configuration files via TFTP

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Description

The command to backup configuration files from the command line using TFTP server are given below.  For more information refer to the FortiOS CLI Reference Guides which are available in the Fortinet Document Library.

# execute backup config tftp <filename_str> <server_ipv4> [<backup_password_str>]
# execute backup full-config tftp <filename_str> <server_ipv4> [<backup_password_str>]

As an example, to backup the FortiGate unit system configuration to a file named fgt.cfg on a TFTP server at IP address 192.168.1.23 use the command:

# execute backup config tftp fgt.cfg 192.168.1.23

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