Cisco Catalyst 2960 Command Reference Manual page 36

archive tar
Command Modes
Privileged EXEC
Command History Release
12.2(25)FX
Usage Guidelines Filenames and directory names are case sensitive.
Image names are case sensitive.
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 c2960-lanbase-tar.12-25.FX file that is in flash
memory. The contents of the tar file appear on the screen:
Switch# archive tar /table flash:c2960-lanbase-tar.12-25.FX.tar
info (219 bytes)
c2960-lanbase-mz.12-25.FX/ (directory)
c2960-lanbase-mz.12-25.FX (610856 bytes)
c2960-lanbase-mz.12-25.FX/info (219 bytes)
info.ver (219 bytes)
This example shows how to display only the c2960-lanbase-12-25.FX/html directory and its contents:
Switch# archive tar /table flash:c2960-lanbase-12-25.FX.tar c2960-lanbase-12-25/html
c2960-lanbase-mz.12-25.FX/html/ (directory)
c2960-lanbase-mz.12-25.FX/html/const.htm (556 bytes)
c2960-lanbase-mz.12-25.FX/html/xhome.htm (9373 bytes)
c2960-lanbase-mz.12-25.FX/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
Catalyst 2960 Switch Command Reference
2-10
Modification
This command was introduced.
Description
Downloads a new image from a TFTP server to the switch.
Uploads an existing image on the switch to a server.
Chapter 2 Catalyst 2960 Switch Cisco IOS Commands
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