Cisco: Saving Running Config to Startup Config

Summary

This is just a some notes on how to copy the running configuration to the startup configuration on a Cisco device. This could bean anything from a Cisco Router, switch, etc.

Notes will provide the commands and the output of what these commands do.

Copying Run to Start

The following command can be used to copy the running configuration to the startup configuration on a Cisco device.

copy run start

OR

copy running-config startup-config

The following output means the command ran successfully and the configuration changes should persist across reboots. If need be the startup-config can be checked to confirm.

Destination filename [startup-config]?
Building configuration...
[OK]

Conclusion

Look! Simplistic notes on how to copy running configuration to startup configuration on Cisco devices. Yay!