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Appendix B Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images
Working with the Flash File System
Creating, Displaying, and Extracting tar Files
You can create a tar file and write files into it, list the files in a tar file, and extract the files from a tar
file as described in the next sections.
Note
Instead of using the
copy
privileged EXEC command or the
archive tar
privileged EXEC command, we
recommend using the
archive download-sw
and
archive upload-sw
privileged EXEC commands to
download and upload software image files.
Creating a tar File
To create a tar file and write files into it, use this privileged EXEC command:
archive tar /create
destination-url
flash:/
file-url
For
destination-url
, specify the destination URL alias for the local or network file system and the name
of the tar file to create. These options are supported:
•
For the local flash file system, the syntax is
flash:
•
For the FTP, the syntax is
ftp:
[[
//
username
[
:
password
]
@
location
]
/
directory]
/
tar-filename
.tar
•
For the RCP, the syntax is
rcp:
[[
//
username
@
location
]
/
directory
]
/
tar-filename
.tar
•
For the TFTP, the syntax is
tftp:
[[
//
location
]
/
directory
]
/
tar-filename
.tar
The
tar-filename
.tar
is the tar file to be created.
For
flash:/
file-url
, specify the location on the local flash file system from which the new tar file is
created. You can also specify an optional list of files or directories within the source directory to write
to the new tar file. If none are specified, all files and directories at this level are written to the newly
created tar file.
This example shows how to create a tar file. This 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
Displaying the Contents of a tar File
To display the contents of a tar file on the screen, use this privileged EXEC command:
archive tar /table
source-url
For
source-url
, specify the source URL alias for the local or network file system. These options are
supported:
•
For the local flash file system, the syntax is
flash:
•
For the FTP, the syntax is
ftp:
[[
//
username
[
:
password
]
@
location
]
/
directory
]
/
tar-filename
.tar
•
For the RCP, the syntax is
rcp:
[[
//
username
@
location
]
/
directory
]
/
tar-filename
.tar