Pasting a Configuration Into Cisco Devices...Error Free!

odelia

If you've been working with Cisco devicesfor awhile, you know that the fastest way to backup your configuration is:
1. Do a "show run" command
2. Copy all the output to your clipboard
3. Paste it into notepad
Then, if you need to restore the configuration you just move into global configuration mode and paste all the output back in. Voila! Insta-configured Cisco device. Here's the problem...when you paste in larger configuration files, it fails. Somewhere after about 50-80 lines of config, the input begins to get scrambled and jumbled all around. The reason is the Cisco device cannot keep up with the data that you are entering. So...how do fix this? Slow down the input! Here's how:
All terminal programshave a setting called “Transmit delay msec/line” for the serial port. Here’s a view of what it looks like in Tera Term: