startup-config , and saving with other name

[zillah2004]

Cisco Command Syntax Conventions are:

Square bracket ([]) indicate optional elements (keyword or argument).

Why when I chose name:

"MyRouterA-config" instead of "startup-config"

It gave me this error message :

"%Error copying nvram:myrouter-config (Invalid argument)"

RouterA #copy running-config startup-config

Destination filename [startup-config]?

[djohnston]

When you specify "startup-config" as the destination, that is essentially an alias for the NVRAM device.

There is only one file(name) allowed in NVRAM and that is "startup-config". No other files are allowed in NVRAM.

If you want to save you startup config in an additional location, you can save it to flash:

copy running-config flash

This won't work on a run-from-flash router like the 2500's though.

-DJ