

Once the sola-winds TFTP has been installed following steps should be followed to back-up Cisco IOS for router and switches. The solar-winds TFTP can be used to back-up the configuration files for appliances like routers, switches, IP Phones, and other devices. There are a variety of freely TFTP servers available the main benefit of using solar-winds TFTP is that it is really easy to set up and some sort of security can be applied like allow certain IP addresses to access the server. It can also be used to run as a service to provide 24/7 TFTP server availability to your network. The solar-winds TFTP server is multi-threaded that allows the user to concurrently upload and downloads the files even from the different networks. So in the case route crashed the IOS can be restored from the server, the TFTP SolarWinds run on the UDP port 69.

This utility allows the network-administrators to upgrade the IOS images, not only that it can also be used to keep the back-up of the configuration files.
