Restoring the running-config without merging?

[Daniel McLean]

Hi all,

I have a Cisco ASA 5512-x running 9.1(2).  I have a saved running-config in a file on TFTP that I want to restore to the device.  How do I do this without merging the configurations?

So if I use copy tftp startup-config or copy tftp running-config they get merged.  Found some references to a 'configure replace' command but that doesn't seem to be available on my device.  What is the preferred method for doing this without having to tidy up the merged config after?

Thanks,

Dan

[Rishabh Seth · Accepted solution]

Hi Dan,

If you have console access and downtime then you can clear all the configuration by "clear config all" and then copy the configuration from the tftp server to running configuration.

Or, you can take out  the current configuration and the one you are planning to move to ASA, compare it using some word editor and later remove the extra commands.

I think any other way of copying the configuration to ASA would lead to merging of configuration.

RS

[Daniel McLean]

Thanks Rishabh, didn't know about the "clear config all" command that will be useful.  In the end I used ASDM to restore the config from a previously backup .cfg file.