Dell PowerConnect M6348 Cli Reference Manual page 128

File System Commands
All files are stored in a flat file system. The following commands are used to perform operations
on these files.
Command
file
delete
filedescr file description
source destination
copy
Copying Files
The copy command not only provides a method for copying files within the file system, but also
to and from remote servers. With the copy command and URLs to identify files, the user can
back up images to local or remote systems or restore images from local or remote systems.
To use the copy command, the user specifies the source file and the destination file. For
example, copy
TFTP server to a local backup configuration file. In this case, if the local configuration file does
not exist, then it is created by the command. If it does exist, it is overwritten. If there is not
enough space on the local file system to accommodate the file, an error is flagged.
Refer to the copy command description in the Layer 2 commands section of the guide for
command details.
Referencing External/Internal File systems
Configuration or software images are copied to or retrieved from remote file systems using
TFTP, XMODEM, FTP, SCP, and SFTP protocols.
• tftp://server-name/path/filename — identifies a file on a remote file system accessible
through the server-name. Trivial file transfer protocol is a simplified FTP and uses a UDP port
instead of TCP and does not have password protection.
• xmodem: filename — identifies the file available on the XMODEM connection.
Special System Files
The following special filenames are used to refer to special virtual system files, which are under
control of the system and may not be removed or added. These file names are reserved and may
not be used as user-defined files. When the user copies a local source file into one of these
special files and the source file has an attached file description, it also is copied as the file
description for the special file.
• backup-config — This file refers to the backup configuration file.
• running-config — This file refers to the configuration file currently active in the system. It is
possible to copy the running-config image to a backup-config file or to the startup-config file.
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tftp://remotehost/pub/backupfile backup-config
Description
Deletes file.
Adds a description to a file (up to 20 characters can
be used).
Copies a file from source file to destination file.
copies a file from the remote