Switch "lost" config. How to recover it?

news2010a · ‎01-05-2010

Hi folks,

I noticed that applications of all of sudden stopped working.
Then I connected via console cable and noticed that switch "lost" config.

If I do a "dir" I see the following below.

Switch#dir
Directory of flash:/

    2 -rwx         269 Jan 01 1970 00:01:24 +00:00 env_vars
    3 -rwx     3721946 Mar 11 2009 23:43:50 +00:00 c2950-i6k2l2q4-mz.121-22.EA13.bin
    4 -rwx        1575 Aug 28 2009 15:25:46 +00:00 private-config.text.renamed
    5 -rwx        1170 Mar 01 1993 00:09:23 +00:00 config.text
    6 -rwx         736 Mar 01 1993 00:00:24 +00:00 vlan
    7 -rwx          24 Mar 01 1993 00:09:24 +00:00 private-config.text
    8 drwx         832 Mar 01 1993 00:04:40 +00:00 html
   22 -rwx         109 Mar 01 1993 00:04:41 +00:00 info
   23 -rwx         109 Mar 01 1993 00:04:41 +00:00 info.ver
   25 -rwx         836 Mar 01 1993 01:22:45 +00:00 vlan.dat

How do I recover again from here?
I have no one onsite to hit console button and let me go into ROMMON.

Leo Laohoo · ‎01-05-2010

Don't worry about the config, you lost the IOS too. You can save the current config if you type the "wr mem" command.

news2010a · ‎01-05-2010

Not sure if I understand what I meant by I "lost the IOS". I see the respective image file still there.

Are you saying that from here I have to simply reconfigure the whole thing instead of attempting to rename and reload the .rename config?

Do we know what could have caused such behavior? If files are ".renamed", I imagine this was not simply an issue caused by someone who forgot to save configuration, corect?

Leo Laohoo · ‎01-05-2010

Looks like you edited your post after my initial post. I can see the "config.text" there so your config is still there.