The command line version of Network
Administration Tool can be used to save the system's network
configuration to a file. This file can then be used to restore the
network settings to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system.
This feature can be used as part of an automated backup script,
to save the configuration before upgrading or reinstalling, or to
copy the configuration to a different Red Hat Enterprise Linux
system.
To save, or export, the system's
network configuration to the file /tmp/network-config, execute the following command
as root:
system-config-network-cmd -e > /tmp/network-config
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To restore, or import, the network
configuration from the file created from the previous command,
execute the following command as root:
system-config-network-cmd -i -c -f /tmp/network-config
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The -i option means to import the data,
the -c option means to clear the existing
configuration prior of importing, and the -f option specifies that the file to import is as
follows.
