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AppendixB Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images Working with Software Images
The algorithm installs the downloaded image onto the system board flash device (flash:). The imag e is
placed into a new directory named with the software versio n strin g, and the B OO T en vi ronmen t v ariable
is updated to point to the newly installed image.
If you kept the old image during the download process (you specified the /leave-old-sw keyword), you
can remove it by entering the delete /force /recursive filesystem:/file-url privileged EXEC command.
For filesystem, use flash: for the system board flash device. For file-url, enter the directory name of the
old software image. All the files in the directory and the direc tor y are removed.
Caution For the download and upload algorithms to operate properly, do not rename image names.
Uploading an Image File By Using FTP
You can upload an image from the switch to an FTP server. You can later download this image to the
same switch or to another switch of the same type.
The upload feature should be used only if the HTML pag es associated with the CMS have been installed
with the existing image.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to upload an image to an FTP server:
Command Purpose
Step1 Verify that the FTP server is properly configured by referring
to the “Preparing to Download or Upload a Configuration
File By Using FTP” section on page B-13.
Step2 Log into the switch through the console port or a Telnet
session.
Step3 configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.
This step is required only if you override the default remote
username or password (see Steps 4, 5, and 6).
Step4 ip ftp username username (Optional) Change the default remote username.
Step5 ip ftp password password (Optional) Change the default password.
Step6 end Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Step7 archive upload-sw
ftp:[[//[username[:password]@]location]/directory]/
image-name.tar
Upload the currently running switch image to the FTP server .
•For //username:password, specify the username and
password. These must be associated with an account on
the FTP server. For more information, see the “Preparing
to Download or Upload an Image File By Using FTP”
section on page B-24.
•For @location, specify the IP address of the FTP 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.