Recover Deleted Configurations

[jason_lacher]

I am removing configurations off of old cisco switches. Is there possibly a way to recover a configuration after it has been deleted? Is there a special procedure for cleaning switches so that nobody can recover old data?

[mahmoodmkl]

Hi

U can backup ur configuration to the tftp server.after removing the configurations u an still restore them from tftp server.

u can erase u r nvram to permanently delte the configuration.

Thanks

Mahmood

[jason_lacher]

I don't need to keep the configurations, I want to make sure that nobody else can recover them.

[mahmoodmkl]

Hi

Just erase ur nvram and reload the switches.the switch is going to factory default settings.No one will be able to recover it.

Thanks

Mahmood

[jason_lacher]

Thanks Mahmood.

I was pretty sure that by erasing the file nobody would be able to recover any of the old configurations. I just wanted to make sure.

[situwayne]

If you switch support this command.

"no service password-recovery"

[glen.grant]

I would check flash, bootflash,slot0, disk 0 etc and make sure no one saved any configs in there , if they did then you must delete and squeeze if needed . Write erase will get rid of the current config but a lot of times people will download configs in flash for different reasons .

[jasonrandolph]

Write erase should permanently dump configuration stored in nvram.

If you need to wipe configurations/files that were stored to flash you should use the squeeze command.

squeeze device: (Example, flash:)

[jasonrandolph]

That is, once the files have been deleted.