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Backup and restore configuration using Secure SHell (SSH)

scp must be enabled

enable
conf t
ssh enable scopy

dump running-config into file

copy running-config flash:/running-config
dir

SSH weak algorithms and ciphers need to be enabled

vi ~/.ssh/config

config

Host 192.168.74.1
    KexAlgorithms +diffie-hellman-group14-sha1
    HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa
    Ciphers +aes256-cbc

Pull config (-O tells to use legacy SCP protocol instead of SFTP)

scp -O r00t@192.168.74.1:running-config .
ls -la

Rename config for archive

TODO

Restore

Push config

TODO