Backup Vyatta Router Configuration's File

It is very important to know how to backup your configurations file in case of emergency or in case you want to test something in your current configurations. Before you start doing any new configurations on your Vyatta router keep a backup.

Procedure

1) You need to setup a tftp server on a client of your network. I am suggesting you the tftpd32 for Windows Users , TftpServer for Mac OS X users and tftpd for Linux Users.

• Tftpd32 is a free, opensource IPv6 ready application which includes DHCP, TFTP, DNS, SNTP and Syslog servers as well as a TFTP client and you can download it from here:  http://tftpd32.jounin.net/tftpd32_download.html 

•  TftpServer is a utility which helps you to utilize and configure the TFTP server shipped with the standard Mac OSX distribution and you can download it from here: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11116/tftpserver/ 

•  tftpd is a server for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol. The TFTP protocol is extensively used to support remote booting of diskless devices or loading operating systems. Debian or Ubuntu can use  the HPA's tftp server. To donwload the hpa tftp server you need these commands : 

     sudo apt-get install tftpd-hpa 
         or
         apt-get install tftpd-hpa



 2) To backup the configuration :

   configure
   save tftp://192.168.1.2/R1-config.boot (The tftp Server's IP address)
   exit

**In case you want to edit/open your config.boot file you can use one of the following text editors.

   Windows
   Notepad++
   Notepad

  Linux
  gEdit
  Nano

  Mac OS X
  Brackets
  TextMate 2