Backup and Restore a Router

[Dustin Barnett]

Hi,

I'm currently looking at backing up and restoring a 2800 series router via ftp.

I see in the Cisco docs that it says to remove any line that begins with "aaa" to avoid being locked out. This router does not use any authentication servers (local users) so I'm wondering if I still need to remove those lines?

Here are the lines in question:

aaa new-model
aaa authentication login default local
aaa authorization exec default local
aaa session-id common

If I were to delete those, what would happen upon restoring from backup? Would the enable and user credentials be the same?

Thanks

[Reza Sharifi · Accepted solution]

Hi Dustin,

If you are not using an ACS/TACACS server for authenticatin and every thing is done locally, then you don't need these lines.

HTH

Reza

[Dustin Barnett]

Thanks, I will remove them.