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Chapter20 Managing Firmware and Configurations
Working with Software Images
The archive upload-sw privileged EXEC command builds an image file on the server by uploading
these files in order: info, the Cisco IOS image, the HTML files, and info.ver. After these files are
uploaded, the upload algorithm creates the tar file format.
Copying Image Files by Using FTP
You can download an access point image from an FTP server or upload the image from the access point
to an FTP server.
You download an access point image file from a server to upgrade the access point software. You can
overwrite the current image with the new one or keep the current image after a download.
You upload an access point image file to a server for backup purposes. You can use this uploaded image
for future downloads to the access point or another access point of the same type.
This section includes this information:
•Preparing to Download or Upload an Image File by Using FTP, page20-23
•Downloading an Image File by Using FTP, page20-24
•Uploading an Image File by Using FTP, page20-26

Preparing to Download or Upload an Image File by Using FTP

You can copy images files to or from an FTP server.
The FTP protocol requires a client to send a remote username and password on each FTP request to a
server. When you copy an image file from the access point to a server by using FTP, the Cisco IOS
software sends the first valid username in this list:
•The username specified in the archive download-sw or archive upload-sw privileged EXEC
command if a username is specified.
•The username set by the ip ftp username username global configuration command if the command
is configured.
•Anonymous.
The access point sends the first valid password in this list:
•The password specified in the archive download-sw or archive upload-sw privileged EXEC
command if a password is specified.
Step1 Log into the access point through a Telnet session.
Step2 archive upload-sw
tftp:[[//location]/directory]/image-name.tar
Upload the currently running access point image to the TFTP
server.
•For //location, specify the IP address of the TFTP server.
•For /directory/image-name.tar, specify the directory
(optional) and the name of the software image to be uploaded.
Directory and image names are case sensitive. The
image-name.tar is the name of the software image to be stored
on the server.
Command Purpose