Archiving Cisco Ios Xr Image On A Local Disk: Example - Cisco ASR 9000 Series Configuration Manual

Image Refresh Using the Archive and Restore Feature
Command or Action
Step 2
Verify the existence of compactflash in the Active
RSP card.
Example:
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:router# dir compactflash:
Step 3 format compactflash:
Example:
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:router# format compactflash:
Step 4
show platform command and show redundancy
summary command
Example:
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:router# show platform
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:router# show redundancy summary
Step 5 run command followed by ksh /pkg/sbin/archive
compactflash:
Example:
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ios#run
# ksh /pkg/sbin/archive compactflash:
Step 6
exit
Example:
# cd /compactflash:
# ls
# cd snapshot

Archiving Cisco IOS XR Image on a Local Disk: Example

RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Router#
Mon Nov 23 19:16:48.920 UTC
Directory of compactflash:
3
919867392 bytes total (919859200 bytes free)
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Router#
Fri Nov 20 00:37:13.432 UTC
Format will destroy all data on "compactflash:". Continue? [confirm]
OL-30420-01
dir compactflash:
drwx 4096 Mon Nov 23 19:16:48 2009
format compactflash:
Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router ROM Monitor Configuration Guide, Release 5.1.x
Archiving Cisco IOS XR Image on a Local Disk: Example
Purpose
Ensures that the compactflash device is present in the RSP card.
Formats the compactflash device to ensure that its filesystem is
initialised to a consistent state.
This step has to be performed on the Active RSP
Note
only.
Ensures that no Online Insertion and Removal (OIR),
configuration changes or reloads are occurring during the format
process. Also, ensure that the system is in Cisco IOS XR RUN
state.
This step has to be performed on the Active RSP
Note
only.
Archives the data available on all available disks to the
compactflash device.
Verifies that the compactflash device contains the backup image
of the active RSP in a snapshot directory. You can verify this
using the dir command from XR or ls command from ksh in the
snapshot directory.
LOST.DIR
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