Cisco Auto Backup Config (Every 24 Hours) Using Archive Command

Cisco Auto Backup Config (Every 24 Hours) Using Archive Command

This is really very handy tool for scheduling Cisco router automatic configuration backup.
What actually ‘archive’ does? It automates the Cisco router configuration backup for a specified interval.

It stores the configuration data regularly after the predefined time period. Time is specified in minutes (1440 minutes= 24 hours)

Router(config)#archive
Router(config-archive)#path tftp://192.168.1.39/
Router(config-archive)#time-period 1440
Router(config-archive)#write-memory

NB: – We didn’t mention any file name for auto backup Cisco config file. Here it stores the config files with series of different name and number set (see fig below).

That’s all about Cisco configuration backup!