Tar File Format Of Images On A Server Or Cisco.com; Copying Image Files By Using Tftp - Cisco 3845 - Security Bundle Router Software Manual

Working with Software Images

tar File Format of Images on a Server or Cisco.com

Software images located on a server or downloaded from Cisco.com are provided in a tar file format,
which contains these files:
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This example shows some of the information contained in the info file.
details about this information:
Table B-3 info File Description
Field
version_suffix
version_directory
image_name
ios_image_file_size
total_image_file_size
image_feature
image_family

Copying Image Files By Using TFTP

You can download a switch image from a TFTP server or upload the image from the switch to a TFTP
server.
You download a switch image file from a server to upgrade the switch software. You can overwrite the
current image with the new one or keep the current image after a download.
You upload a switch image file to a server for backup purposes; this uploaded image can be used for
future downloads to the same or another switch of the same type.
Instead of using the copy privileged EXEC command or the archive tar privileged EXEC command, we
Note
recommend using the archive download-sw and archive upload-sw privileged EXEC commands to
download and upload software image files.
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Appendix B
An info file, which serves as a table of contents for the tar file
One or more subdirectories containing other images and files, such as Cisco IOS images
version_suffix: universal-122-52.0.112.EY
version_directory: me380x-universal.mz.122-52.111.EY
image_system_type_id: 0x00000000
image_name: me380x-universal.mz.122-52.111.EY.bin
ios_image_file_size: 16527872
total_image_file_size: 20685312
image_feature: IP|LAYER_2|MIN_DRAM_MEG=128
image_family: ME380x
board_ids: 0x00000029
info_end:
Description
Specifies the Cisco IOS image version string suffix
Specifies the directory where the Cisco IOS image and the HTML subdirectory are installed
Specifies the name of the Cisco IOS image within the tar file
Specifies the Cisco IOS image size in the tar file, which is an approximate measure of how
much flash memory is required to hold just the Cisco IOS image
Specifies the size of all the images (the Cisco IOS image and the web management files) in the
tar file, which is an approximate measure of how much flash memory is required to hold them
Describes the core functionality of the image
Describes the family of products on which the software can be installed
Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images
Table B-3 provides additional
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