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Appendix B Working with the IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images
Working with Software Images
The archive upload-sw privileged EXEC command builds an image file on the server by uploading
these files in order: info, the IOS image, the HTML files, and info.ver. After these files are uploaded,
the upload algorithm creates the tar file format.
Caution
For the download and upload algorithms to operate properly, do not rename image names.
Step 5
end
Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Step 6
archive upload-sw
rcp:[[[//[username@]location]/directory]/image-na
me.tar]
Upload the currently running switch image to the RCP
server.
•
For //username, specify the username; for the RCP copy
request to execute, an account must be defined on the
network server for the remote username. For more
information, see the
“Preparing to Download or Upload
an Image File By Using RCP” section on page B-29
.
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For @location, specify the IP address of the RCP server.
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For /directory]/image-name.tar, specify the directory
(optional) and the name of the software image to be
uploaded. Directory and image names are case
sensitive.
•
The image-name.tar is the name of software image to
be stored on the server.
Command
Purpose
