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How To Backup & Restore Brocade FC Switch Config

This document provides instructions for backing up and restoring the configuration of a Brocade fibre channel switch. It recommends always backing up configurations and describes using an FTP server and the switch's configupload and configdownload commands to back up the configuration to a file and later restore it. Additional configuration information can also be viewed and saved using commands like configShow, ipaddrShow, licenseShow and switchShow.

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How To Backup & Restore Brocade FC Switch Config

This document provides instructions for backing up and restoring the configuration of a Brocade fibre channel switch. It recommends always backing up configurations and describes using an FTP server and the switch's configupload and configdownload commands to back up the configuration to a file and later restore it. Additional configuration information can also be viewed and saved using commands like configShow, ipaddrShow, licenseShow and switchShow.

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How to backup / Restore

Brocade FC Switch
Config
Hi All,

Backup of everything is MUST in admins life.

This document will help you to backup or Restore the Brocade Fibre

Switch Configuration.

1) Login to switch using Utility like Putty / Kitty.

2) Download Portable FTP Server Utility :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/smallftpd

3) Start it and add one user. Give LRW Permissions. (e.g. Shown below)
Create Temp Folder in C:\ and point it
4) Run the following commands :

Commands :

1) configupload (For Backing up Fibre Switch Configuration)


2) configdownload (For restore)

Another additional method for ensuring the backup : 

1) Login to switch using Utility like Putty / Kitty.

2) You can run the following commands to see additional configuration

information that you can copy to a file to save:

configShow

ipaddrShow

licenseShow

switchShow

Save the commands output in text file.

Now your switch is Backup Up!!! Congrats!!!

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