Cisco Catalyst 3550 Command Reference Manual page 41

Chapter 2 Catalyst 3550 Switch Cisco IOS Commands
Examples This example shows how to create a tar file. The command writes the contents of the new-configs
directory on the local flash device to a file named saved.tar on the TFTP server at 172.20.10.30:
Switch# archive tar /create tftp:172.20.10.30/saved.tar flash:/new-configs
This example shows how to display the contents of the c3550-ipservices-tar.122-25.tar file that is in
flash memory. The contents of the tar file appear on the screen:
Switch# archive tar /table flash:c3550-ipservices-tar.122-25.tar
info (219 bytes)
c3550-ipservices-mz.122-25.SEB/ (directory)
c3550-ipservices-mz.122-25/html/ (directory)
c3550-ipservices-mz.122-25/c3550-mz.122-25.SEB.bin (6074880 bytes)
c3550-ipservices-mz.122-25/info (219 bytes)
info.ver (219 bytes)
This example shows how to display only the c3550-ipservices-mz.122-25.SEB/html directory and its
contents:
Switch# archive tar /table flash:c3550-ipservices-tar.122-25.SEB.tar
c3550-ipservices-mz.122-25.SEB/html
c3550-ipservices-mz.122-25.SEB/html/ (directory)
c3550-ipservices-mz.122-25SEB/html/const.htm (556 bytes)
c3550-ipservices-mz.122-25SEB/html/xhome.htm (9373 bytes)
c3550-ipservices-mz.122-25SEB/html/menu.css (1654 bytes)
<output truncated>
This example shows how to extract the contents of a tar file on the TFTP server at 172.20.10.30. This
command extracts just the new-configs directory into the root directory on the local flash file system.
The remaining files in the saved.tar file are ignored.
Switch# archive tar /xtract tftp:/172.20.10.30/saved.tar flash:/ new-configs
Related Commands Command
archive download-sw
archive upload-sw
OL-8566-02
Description
Downloads a new image to the switch.
Uploads an existing image on the switch to a server.
Catalyst 3550 Multilayer Switch Command Reference
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