June 30, 2006
Confidential
Document Number BDTM10001-A05 Standard
BelAir100 User Guide
System Settings
Note: The remote server must be configured to allow file uploads. By default,
most TFTP or FTP servers disallow file uploads.
Restoring Configuration Data from a Backup Copy
To restore the configuration data from a remote server, you must:
1 Login to the unit as
root
.
2 Download a previous configuration back up copy from a remote server
using the following command:
config-restore remoteip <ipaddr> remotefile <name>
[{tftp|ftp [user <usrname> password <pword>]}]]
[force]
The
config-restore
command is available from any mode.
You can use either TFTP or FTP to communicate with the remote server. By
default, TFTP is used. If you specify FTP, you can also specify the user name
and password. The default FTP user name is
anonymous
and the default FTP
password is
root@<nodeip>
, where <nodeip> is the IP address of node
making the request. If you do not use the default FTP username, the FTP
server must be configured to accept your username and password.
You can use a backup copy that was created with a different version of
software than the current software installed on the unit. To do so, use the
config-restore
command with the
force
option. If you use the
force
option,
then you must do step 4 on page 31 after you reboot the system.
3 Reboot the unit for the new configuration to take effect:
cd /system
reboot
4 If you used the
force
option, thoroughly verify the restored configuration.
The configuration database in a software release may be structurally
different than in other releases. Because of this, some of the restored
configuration parameters may not be applied, or applied incorrectly. BelAir
Networks strongly recommends that you fully verify the configuration and
operation of the unit before you proceed any further and save the restored
configuration.
5 Use the
config-save
command to save the restored configuration.
For example:
config-restore remoteip 10.1.1.1 remotefile Node100.backup.1.2.3.20_2004_04_12
cd /system
reboot
config-save