HP ProCurve 2500 Transferring Switch Configurations, TFTP: Retrieving a Configuration from a Remote Host

Transferring an Operating System or Startup

Transferring an Operating System or Startup Configuration File

Transferring Switch Configurations

	■ Another console session (through either a direct connection to a terminal
	device or through Telnet) was already running when you started the
	session in which the download was attempted.
N o t e	If an error occurs in which normal switch operation cannot be restored, the
	switch automatically reboots itself. In this case, an appropriate message is
	displayed in the copyright screen that appears after the switch reboots.

Transferring Switch Configurations

Transfer Features

Feature	Default	Menu	CLI	Web
use TFTP to copy a configuration	n/a	—	below
from a remote host to the startup-
config file
use TFTP to copy the startup-	n/a	—	page A-11
config file to a remote host
use Xmodem to copy a	n/a	—	page A-11
configuration from a serially
connected host to the startup-
config file
Use Xmodem to copy the startup-	n/a	—	page A-12
config file to a serially connected
host

Using the CLI commands described in this section, you can copy switch configurations to and from a switch.

TFTP: Retrieving a Configuration from a Remote Host.

Syntax: copy tftp startup-config <ip-address> <remote-file>

This command copies a configuration from a remote host to the startup-config file in the switch. (See appendix C, "Switch Memory and Configuration" for information on the startup-config file.)

For example, to download a configuration file named sw2512 in the configs directory on drive "d" in a remote host having an IP address of 13.28.227.105:

HP2512# copy tftp startup-config 13.28.227.105 d:\configs\sw2512

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