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Restoring Cisco Router Configuration

Jay

29 Jul 2009 — 1 min read

In the event that you have lost the configuration on your Cisco device, restoration is straight forward assuming of course you had made a backup.

There are 2 ways to restore the configuration to put our device back to normal

Copy and paste the backup configuration directly to the device
Copy the configuration from a TFTP server to the device.

In both cases, make sure you save your configuration afterwards using either “copy run start” or “write memory”.

Below is an example of restoration from a TFTP server. You will notice the router name is “Router” – the default hostname for a router without configuration. After the restoration is completed, you will notice the hostname goes back to the configured value.

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