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This feature was available in Vyatta Core since 6.3
Local archive and revisions
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Revisions are stored on disk, you can view them, compare them, and rollback to previous revisions if anything goes wrong.
To view existing revisions, use `show system commit` operational mode command.
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You can rollback to a previous revision with `rollback X`, where X is a revision number. Your system will reboot and load the config from the archive.
Configuring the archive size
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You can specify the number of revisions stored on disk with `set system config-management commit-revisions X`, where X is a number between 0 and 65535. When the number of revisions exceeds that number, the oldest revision is removed.
Remote archive
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VyOS can copy the config to a remote location after each commit. TFTP, FTP, and SFTP servers are supported.
You can specify the location with `set system config-management commit-archive location URL` command, e.g. `set system config-management commit-archive location tftp://10.0.0.1/vyos`.