Need Clarification on "Last Configuration Change" and "NVRAM Config Last Updated"

[ITAdmin777]

Hello community...need some clarification

Does last configuration change show last change to the running config?


...And Does NVRAM config last updated show last time running-config wrote to startup-config?


So if a tech/individual made a config change and the last change entry has been updated , however  NVRAM config last updated has not changed, this tells me the individual may have exited the console without issuing  wr mem to save changes to the statup-config! Correct?

And to further add, the archive command (see example below) really means when manually issuing wr mem or scheduled,   place a copy of the config to your ftp server for backup purposes,  and not to be confused with automatically doing a wr mem  and then automatically save  to your ftp server for backup via specified time-period?

Switch01(config)#archive

switch01(config-archive)#path ftp://192.168.1.101/$h

switch01(config-archive)#time-period 1440

switch01(config-archive)#write-memory

Thanks for clarifying

[Mark Malone]

Hi

when write memory is in place with archive and you do a wr on the devic it will automatically store the backup config to the server

If you want to see if there are changes to nvram just do a wr then dir nvram and see the diff in file size each time you save