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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12px/15px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The vicfg-cfgbackup command backs up ESXi configuration data and restores them later. You can back up the host configuration, restore the configuration to the host, force the restore of the configuration, and reset the host to factory settings.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12px/15px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Back up ESXi host configuration before you change the configuration or upgrade the ESXi image</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Specifies the target server and authentication information if required. Run<span> ;</span><code>vicfg-cfgbackup --help</code><span> ;</span>for a list of all connection options.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Forces the restore of the configuration.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Prints a help message for each command-specific and each connection option. Calling the script with no arguments or with<span> ;</span><a href="https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/vcli41/doc/reference/vicfg-cfgbackup.html#item__2d_2dhelp" style="color: #95a8a6; text-decoration: none;"><code>--help</code></a><span> ;</span>has the same effect.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Restores configuration from <backupfile> onto the host.</backupfile></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Backs up the host configuration.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Include the number of the build that is running on the host that you are backing up in the backup filename. If you are running the vSphere CLI from vMA, the backup file is saved locally on vMA. Local storage for backup files is safe because vMA is stored in the /vmfs/volumes/<datastore> directory, which is separate from the ESXi image and configuration files.</datastore></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Resets the host to factory settings.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Performs all operations without prompting for confirmation</div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12px/15px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong>Examples</strong></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; font: 14px/18px proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 2px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">The following examples assume you are specifying connection options, either explicitly or, for example, by specifying the server, user name, and password. Run<span> ;</span><code style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: monospace !important; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">vicfg-cfgbackup --help</code><span> ;</span>for a list of common options including connection options.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; font: 14px/18px proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 2px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Back up the host configuration to the file C:backup.txt:</span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; font: 14px/18px proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 2px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Reset the host, that is, restore to factory settings:</span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; font: 14px/18px proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 2px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Restore a configuration previously saved to C:backup.txt to the host:</span></div>
<pre style="-ms-overflow-x: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; font-family: monospace !important; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"> vicfg-cfgbackup <conn_options> -l C:backup.txt</conn_options></span></pre>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; font: 14px/18px proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 2px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Restore a configuration from C:backup.txt without prompting for user confirmation:</span></div>
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