restore conf offline

[Denda]

We had several ports on our 3524XL switch go bad at a remote location. We have rec'd the replacement switch at our corporate site (my site). I would like to restore the backup config of the bad switch to this new switch. I would like to do this w/o the new switch being on the network & through console. How can I accomplish this? The reason? The bad switch is still on the network. Is there a way to restore that backup if I connect the new switch via console to the tftp server pc? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to get this done so I can ship the switch to the remote site, & just tell them to replace the bad one with this one w/o anyone there touching the configs.

Thanks a ton.

 

[vipergg]

Just give the new switch an address on the TFTP subnet and do a copy tftp startup-config " .

 

[vipergg]

To clarify on previous post , you really can put this on any subnet on your office location , give it an unused address in that space with an appropriate default gateway . Do a copy tftp startup-config . Verify it is configured by doing a show start and the config should show up . Then just shut the switch off , "DO NOT DO A WRITE MEM" before shutting off or this will overwrite the downloaded config . As a second choice you can just put the ip address of the switch and the default gateway and then just download the config file once it gets out to the remote site .

 

[Denda]

thanks, that's what I thought, but now for the stupid question..
I've only configured these with GBIC's & fibre drops & I say configured very loosely. Our network isn't very complex & I have manually configured each new one by copying what all the other ones are configured as. I know the restore would work much quicker.

I don't have any extra GBIC's to hook this baby up to the network piggy backed from an existing. Can I just plug the lan drop in port 1 & get out to the network? Because that isn't working for me right now. I'm sure I have to configure the port somehow.

Thanks for the info

 

[vipergg]

Yes you should be able to just plug in if you have the right cable , switch to switch is going to be a crossover cable I believe .

 

[Denda]

doh! Crossover. That's my bad. thanks a ton.