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Catalyst 2960 and 2960-S Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Appendix A Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images
Working with the Flash File System
This example shows how to create a tar file. This command writes the contents of the new-configs
directory on the local flash device to a file named saved.tar on the TFTP server at 172. 20.10.30:
Switch# archive tar /create tftp:172.20.10.30/saved.tar flash:/new-configs
Displaying the Contents of a tar File
To display the contents of a tar file on the screen, use this privileged EXEC command:
archive tar /table source-url
For source-url, specify the source URL alias for the local or network file system. These options are
supported:
• For the local flash file system, the syntax is
flash:
• For the FTP, the syntax is
ftp:[[//username[:password]@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
• For the RCP, the syntax is
rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
• For the TFTP, the syntax is
tftp:[[//location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
The tar-filename.tar is the tar file to display.
You can also limit the display of the files by specifying an optional list of files or directories after the tar
file; then only those files appear. If none are specified, all files and directories appear.
This example shows how to display the contents of a switch tar file that is in flash memory:
Switch# archive tar /table flash:
image-name
.tar
image-name
/ (directory)
image-name
/html/ (directory)
image-name
/html/foo.html (0 bytes)
image-name
/
image-name
.bin (610856 bytes)
image-name
/info (219 bytes)
This example shows how to display only the /html directory and its contents:
Switch# archive tar /table flash:
image-name/
html
c
image-name
/html
c
image-name
/html/ (directory)
c
image-name
/html/const.htm (556 bytes)
c
image-name
/html/xhome.htm (9373 bytes)
c
image-name
/html/menu.css (1654 bytes)
<output truncated>
Extracting a tar File
To extract a tar file into a directory on the flash file system, use this privileged EXEC command:
archive tar /xtract source-url flash:/file-url [dir/file...]
For source-url, specify the source URL alias for the local file system. The se options are supported:
• For the local flash file system, the syntax is
flash:
• For the FTP, the syntax is
ftp:[[//username[:password]@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar