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Command to compare running and startup configs?

ShawnD — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:40:47 GMT

Hi everyone,

Is there a command similar to Cisco "show archive config differences"?

I'm not seeing anything that stands out for the 7250/7550 command ref guide.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Shawn

Re: Command to compare running and startup configs?

BenBeck — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:51:38 GMT

show run > running config

show config > startup config

Re: Command to compare running and startup configs?

ShawnD — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:58:52 GMT

Is there a way to show the specific differences between the two configs? Only what is different?

Re: Command to compare running and startup configs?

BenBeck — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:24:46 GMT

There is not a way to do that for those two files. You would have to offload and use something to compare. We did introduce config archive/replace in 9.0, but I have not used it much. Please take a look here for more details:

https://docs.commscope.com/bundle/fastiron-09010-managementguide/page/GUID-FC77796F-9484-4F98-8032-4540F4FB7962.html

Re: Command to compare running and startup configs?

ShawnD — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:28:28 GMT

Thank you, Ben for assisting me. Yeah, it looks like I will have to use something outside and copy/paste the configs and compare them that way.

Thanks again for the help, take care.

Re: Command to compare running and startup configs?

CiscoBoy — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:55:49 GMT

Hello,

One command you can look after is : show archive config diff

By looking at Cisco Forum

Have a good day

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/fundamentals/command/reference/cf_book/cf_s1.html

http://www.waveofweb.com/windows/compare-two-text-files-using-notepad/

https://pingmynetwork.com/network/ccna-200-301/running-startup-config