03-25-2009 07:28 AM - edited 03-04-2019 04:05 AM
%SYS-3-CONFIG_NO_PRIVATE: No space remaining to save private config
When I attempt to copy running-config to startup-config, I get the above error message. There is plenty of space in Flash. When I look up the message in the error message decoder, it says it is most likely a bug. I am wondering if there is a work around, short of switching IOS versions. Thanks!
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03-25-2009 07:47 AM
You have 2759 bits free, not much.
I recommend implementing service compress-config if you haven't done it already:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/fundamentals/command/reference/cf_r1.html#wp1015010
HTH,
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Edison.
03-25-2009 07:33 AM
The configuration is stored in NVRAM, not Flash.
Please post the show file systems output.
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Edison.
03-25-2009 07:45 AM
Oops! Sorry, I got confused because someone had written a config to flash. Here are results of the show file system:
rslkvpn01#sh file systems
File Systems:
Size(b) Free(b) Type Flags Prefixes
- - opaque rw archive:
- - opaque rw system:
29688 2759 nvram rw nvram:
- - opaque rw null:
- - network rw tftp:
- - opaque ro xmodem:
- - opaque ro ymodem:
* 33292284 10530048 flash rw flash:
- - opaque wo syslog:
- - network rw rcp:
- - network rw pram:
- - network rw ftp:
- - network rw http:
- - network rw scp:
- - network rw https:
- - opaque ro cns:
rslkvpn01#
03-25-2009 07:47 AM
You have 2759 bits free, not much.
I recommend implementing service compress-config if you haven't done it already:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/fundamentals/command/reference/cf_r1.html#wp1015010
HTH,
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Edison.
03-25-2009 07:47 AM
you can try
conf t
service compress config
03-25-2009 07:54 AM
Thanks to both of you! When I realized the config really had gotten too big to save in NVRAM, I deleted some unused access-lists and was able to save the config.
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