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Chapter 16: File Download and Upload Commands

❑Start the TFTP server software before you perform the command.

❑The switch from where you are uploading the file must have an IP address and subnet mask, such as a master switch of an enhanced stack. To upload a file from a switch that does not have an IP address, such as a slave switch, you can perform an Xmodem upload from a local management session.

The DESTFILE parameter specifies a name for the file. This is the name that the file will be stored as on the TFTP server. When you name an uploaded file, you should give it the three-letter extension that corresponds to its file type. The extensions are listed in Table 1 on page 239.

The SERVER parameter specifies the IP address of the network node containing the TFTP server software where the uploaded file will be stored.

The equivalent SRCFILE and FILE parameters specify the name of the file to be uploaded from the switch. You have three options:

❑SWITCHCFG - Uploads the switch’s active boot configuration file to the TFTP server.

❑filename - Uploads a file from the switch’s file system to the TFTP server. This differs from the SWITCHCFG parameter in that the latter uploads just the active boot configuration file, while this parameter can upload any file in the file system.

❑APPBLOCK - Uploads the switch’s active AT-S62 image file to the TFTP server.

Examples

The following command uses TFTP to upload a configuration file called “sw22 boot.cfg” from the switch’s file system to a TFTP server with an IP address of 149.88.88.88. The command stores the file on the server with the same name that it has on the switch:

upload method=tftp destfile="sw22 boot.cfg" server=149.88.88.88 srcfile="sw22 boot.cfg"

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