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Appendix B Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images
Working with Configuration Files
For
flash:/
file-url
[
dir/file
...], specify
t
he location on the local flash file system into which the tar file is
extracted. Use the
dir/file
... option to specify an optional list of files or directories within the tar file to
be extracted. If none are specified, all files and directories are extracted.
This example shows how to extract the contents of a tar file located 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
Displaying the Contents of a File
To display the contents of any readable file, including a file on a remote file system, use the
more
[
/ascii
|
/binary
|
/ebcdic
]
file-url
privileged EXEC command:.
This example shows how to display the contents of a configuration file on a TFTP server:
Switch#
more tftp://serverA/hampton/savedconfig
!
! Saved configuration on server
!
version 11.3
service timestamps log datetime localtime
service linenumber
service udp-small-servers
service pt-vty-logging
!
<output truncated>
Working with Configuration Files
This section describes how to create, load, and maintain configuration files.
Note
For information about configuration files in switch stacks, see the
“Stack Configuration Files” section
.
Configuration files contain commands entered to customize the function of the Cisco IOS software. A
way to create a basic configuration file is to use the
setup
program or to enter the
setup
privileged EXEC
command. For more information, see
Chapter 3, “Assigning the Switch IP Address and Default
You can copy (
download
) configuration files from a TFTP, FTP, or RCP server to the running
configuration or startup configuration of the switch. You might want to perform this for one of these
reasons:
•
To restore a backed-up configuration file.
•
To use the configuration file for another switch. For example, you might add another switch to your
network and want it to have a configuration similar to the original switch. By copying the file to the
new switch, you can change the relevant parts rather than recreating the whole file.
•
To load the same configuration commands on all the switches in your network so that all the
switches have similar configurations.