[Edgecore SONiC] Backup/Restore configure Follow

How to backup and restore the configure

• How to backup configure
• Recovery the configure by backup file

Tested model & firmware version:

• Switch model name:

       AS7326-56X

• Edgecore SONiC version: 

202006.4

202012.2

Restriction

1. known issue: Wrong alias names in the default configuration with "AS7326-56X".(This issue is fixed in Edgecore-SONiC_20201229_070315_ec202006_101 and above)
   

   admin@sonic:~$ show interfaces status
     Interface            Lanes    Speed    MTU    FEC    Alias    Vlan    Oper    Admin             Type    Asym PFC
   -----------  ---------------  -------  -----  -----  -------  ------  ------  -------  ---------------  ----------
     Ethernet0                3      25G   9100   none   Eth5/3  routed    down       up              N/A         N/A
     Ethernet1                2      25G   9100   none   Eth5/2  routed    down       up              N/A         N/A
     Ethernet2                4      25G   9100   none   Eth5/4  routed    down       up              N/A         N/A
     Ethernet3                8      25G   9100   none   Eth6/4  routed    down       up              N/A         N/A
     Ethernet4                7      25G   9100   none   Eth6/3  routed    down       up              N/A         N/A
     ... 
     omitted
     ...

Relation article

• [Edgecore SONiC] Reset default configure

How to backup configure

Step1: Backup default configuration "config_db.json" .

 admin@sonic:~$ sudo cp /etc/sonic/config_db.json /etc/sonic/config_db.json.bk

Note. If you do the backup file after installed, it will help you to backup the factory default configuration file.

Recovery the configure by backup file

Step 1. If we want to reset the setting to backup file, replace current config_db.json by backup  configuration file.

admin@sonic:~$ sudo cp /etc/sonic/config_db.json.bk /etc/sonic/config_db.json

Step 2. config reload or power cycle the switch

admin@sonic:~$ sudo config reload -y