Situation: You may want to use a terminal emulation program such as putty and telnet backup and restore a Cisco configuration. This article descripts the procedure with putty.
- Connect the console cable between your PC and Cisco device.
- Login your secured user account.
- At the Router>prompt, issue the enable command, and provide the required password when prompted. The prompt changes toRouter#, which indicates that the router is now in privileged mode.
4. Issue the terminal length 0 command in order to force the router to return the entire response at once, rather than one screen at a time .This allows you to capture the configuration without extraneous–more–prompts generated when the router responds one screen at a time.
5. Run the show running-config command and allow time for the router to complete its response. You can see: Building configuration…followed by the configuration.
6. Right click on Terminal Emulation Program top bar and select Copy All to Clipboard.
7. Paste the configuration file into Notepad and save the configuration file.
