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Cisco ASDM User Guide
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Chapter 3 Defining Preferences and Using Configuration, Diagnostic, and File Management Tools
File Management Tools
Restoring Configurations
You can specify configurations and images to restore from a zip file on your local computer. Before
proceeding, please note the following restrictions:
• The zip file you restore must be created from the Tools > Backup Configurations option.
• Although you can use the Tools > Backup Configurations option to back up a running configuration,
the Tools > Restore Configurations option does not support restore the running configuration.
Instead, unzip and transfer the running-config.cfg file to the security appliance file system, enter the
copy running-config.cfg startup-config command, and restart the security appliance to load it to
memory.
• We support configuration restorals using backups made from the same security appliance type.
Although you may want to try the following types of restorals, we do not support them:
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Restoral of components other than the running configuration to any other type in the ASA
5500-series.
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Restoral of a 5520 running configuration to a 5540, or vice-versa.
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Restoral of a 5520 running configuration to a 5550, or vice-versa, only if they both have a 4-port
SSM.
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Restoral from one 5520, 5540, or 5580 running configuration to another type in this group only
if they both have the same interfaces in the same slots.
• The DAP configuration may depend on a specific running configuration, URL-list, and CSD
configuration.
• The CSD configuration may depend on the version of the CSD image.
To restore selected elements of the security appliance configuration, Cisco Secure Desktop image, or
SSL VPN Client images and profiles, perform the following steps:
Step 1 Choose Tools > Restore Configurations.
The first Restore Configurations dialog box opens.
Note Later in the procedure, you have an opportunity to choose the configuration elements to restore;
this window lets you choose the file from which to restore them.
Step 2 Click Browse Local Directory, choose the zip file on your local computer that contains the
configuration to restore, then click Select.
ASDM shows the path and the zip filename in the Local File box.
Step 3 Click Next.
The second Restore Configuration dialog box opens.