Archive Upload-Sw - Cisco Catalyst 2960 Command Reference Manual

Chapter 2 Catalyst 2960 Switch Cisco IOS Commands

archive upload-sw

Use the archive upload-sw privileged EXEC command to upload an existing switch image to a server.
Syntax Description /version version_string
destination-url
Defaults
Uploads the currently running image from the flash: file system.
Command Modes
Privileged EXEC
Command History Release
12.2(25)FX
Usage Guidelines Use the upload feature only if the HTML files associated with the embedded device manager have been
installed with the existing image.
The files are uploaded in this sequence: the Cisco IOS image, the HTML files, and info. After these files
are uploaded, the software creates the tar file.
Image names are case sensitive.
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archive upload-sw [/version version_string] destination-url
(Optional) Specify the specific version string of the image to be uploaded.
The destination URL alias for a local or network file system. These options
are supported:
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The image-name.tar is the name of software image to be stored on the
server.
Modification
This command was introduced.
The syntax for the local flash file system:
flash:
The syntax for the FTP:
ftp:[[//username[:password]@location]/directory]/image-name.tar
The syntax for an HTTP server:
http://[[username:password]@]{hostname |
host-ip}[/directory]/image-name.tar
The syntax for a secure HTTP server:
https://[[username:password]@]{hostname |
host-ip}[/directory]/image-name.tar
The syntax for the Remote Copy Protocol (RCP):
rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/image-name.tar
The syntax for the TFTP:
tftp:[[//location]/directory]/image-name.tar
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