Cisco Systems 3750E manual Uploading an Image File By Using Tftp, Archive upload-sw

Appendix B Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images

Working with Software Images

Note If the flash device has sufficient space to hold two images and you want to overwrite one of these images with the same version, you must specify the /overwrite option.

If you specify the /leave-old-sw, the existing files are not removed. If there is not enough space to install the new image and keep the current running image, the download process stops, and an error message is displayed.

The algorithm installs the downloaded image on the system board flash device (flash:). The image is placed into a new directory named with the software version string, and the BOOT environment variable is updated to point to the newly installed image.

If you kept the old image during the download process (you specified the /leave-old-swkeyword), you can remove it by entering the delete /force /recursive filesystem:/file-urlprivileged EXEC command. For filesystem, use flash: for the system board flash device. For file-url, enter the directory name of the old image. All the files in the directory and the directory are removed.

Caution For the download and upload algorithms to operate properly, do not rename image names.

Uploading an Image File By Using TFTP

You can upload an image from the switch to a TFTP server. You can later download this image to the switch or to another switch of the same type.

Use the upload feature only if the web management pages associated with the embedded device manager have been installed with the existing image.

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to upload an image to a TFTP server:

	Command	Purpose
Step 1
		Make sure the TFTP server is properly configured; see the
		“Preparing to Download or Upload an Image File By Using TFTP”
		section on page B-23.
Step 2
		Log into the switch through the console port, the Ethernet
		management port, or a Telnet session.
Step 3
	archive upload-sw	Upload the currently running switch image to the TFTP server.
	tftp:[[//location]/directory]/image-name.tar	• 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.taris the
		name of the software image to be stored on the server.

The archive upload-swprivileged EXEC command builds an image file on the server by uploading these files in order: info, the Cisco IOS image, and the web management files. After these files are uploaded, the upload algorithm creates the file format.

Caution For the download and upload algorithms to operate properly, do not rename image names.

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