A lot of customers ask how they can pull a back up running configuration of their Cisco router. So here are the steps to do so.
- Open Putty
- On the left side select Logging under Session
- Select the ratio button next to All Session Output
- Press the Browse button and navigate to the location you wish to save the file and enter a file name in the file name field and click Save
- Click on Session
- In the Host name box enter the IP address of the device you want to connect to
- Select Telnet, SSH or Serial ratio button under the Connection type
- Click Open
- If you are using SSH and this is the first time you are connecting to this device on this computer you maybe asked to save the RSA key. Click Yes
- Enter your log in info to log into the router
- Depending on your privilege level you may need to type in Enable to get into enable mode
- Type Show run and press enter
- Some of the configuration will be shown, press the Space bar to show more
- Once all the configuration has been displayed type Exit and press enter
- The Putty session should close
- Browse to the location where you saved your file and change the extension to .txt
- Open the file and verify that you see the device configuration.
To copy config to a flash drive
- Insert flash drive into the router
- At an enable prompt (shown by a # instead of a >)
- enter the following command copy running-config usb0:running-config
- remove the flash drive and close the putty session
