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Chapter 7 Managing Firmware and Configurations

Working with the Flash File System

For specific examples of using the copy command with configuration files, see the “Working with

Configuration Files” section on page 7-7.

To copy software images either by downloading a new version or uploading the existing one, use the

archive download-sw or the archive upload-sw privileged EXEC command. For more information, see

the “Working with Software Images” section on page 7-18.

Deleting Files

When you no longer need a file on a flash memory device, you can permanently delete it. To delete a file

or directory from a specified flash device, use the delete [/force] [/recursive] [filesystem:]/file-url

privileged EXEC command.

Caution When files are deleted, their contents cannot be recovered.

Use the /recursive keyword for deleting a directory and all subdirectories and the files contained in it.

Use the /force keyword to suppress the prompting that confirms a deletion of each file in the directory.

You are prompted only once at the beginning of this deletion process. Use the /force and /recursive

keywords for deleting old software images that were installed by using the archive download-sw

command but are no longer needed.

If you omit the filesystem: option, the WMIC uses the default device specified by the cd command. For

file-url, you specify the path (directory) and the name of the file to be deleted.

This example shows how to delete the file myconfig from the default flash memory device:

bridge# delete myconfig

Creating, Displaying, and Extracting tar Files

You can create a tar file and write files into it, list the files in a tar file, and extract the files from a tar

file as described in the next sections.

To create a tar file and write files into it, use the following command in privileged EXEC mode:

archive tar /create destination-url flash:/file-url

For destination-url, specify the destination URL alias for the local or network file system and the name

of the tar file to create. These options are supported:

• For the local flash file system, the syntax is

flash:/file-url

• For the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), the syntax is

ftp:[[//username[:password]@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar

• For the Remote Copy Protocol (RCP), the syntax is

rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar

• For the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), the syntax is

tftp:[[//location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar

The tar-filename.tar is the tar file to be created.