Cisco 300 Series

Configuration and Image File Commands
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• null:—Null destination for copies or files. A remote file can be copied to null to determine its size.
For instance copy running-conf null returns the size of the running configuration file.
• mirror-config—Mirrored configuration file. If the running config and the startup config have been
identical for 24 hours, the startup config is automatically copied to the mirror-conf file by the
system. It can then be copied to the startup or running conf if required.
• localization—This enables copying a language dictionary file to the secondary language file, such
as in copy tftp://10.5.234.203/french.txt localization. This creates French as the second language.
the file french.txt is the French dictionary.
• logging—Specifies the SYSLOG file.
• scp://—Source or destination URL for a Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) network server. The syntax
for this alias is: scp://[
username : password @] host /[ directory ]/ filename . The host can be either the
IP address or hostname. The default on the switch is SSH authentication by password with
username and password anonymous. The SSH authentication parameters can be reconfigured to
match the SSH/SCP server’s parameters.
• xmodem:—Source for the file from a serial connection that uses the Xmodem protocol.
Default Configuration
Sensitive data is excluded if no method was specified
Command Mode
Privileged EXEC mode
User Guidelines
The location of the file system dictates the format of the source or destination URL.
The entire copying process may take several minutes and differs from protocol to
protocol and from network to network.
IPv6z Address Format
If the IPv6 address is a Link Local address (IPv6z address), the outgoing interface
name must be specified. The format of an IPv6z address is:
{
ipv6-link-local-address }%{ interface-id }. The subparameters are:
• ipv6-link-local-address —Specifies the IPv6 Link Local address.
• interface-id —{<port-type>[ ]<port-number>}|{port-channel |
po}[]<port-channel-number> | {tunnel | tu}[ ]<tunnel-number> | vlan[ ]<vlan-id>
If the egress interface is not specified, the default interface is selected. The
following combinations are possible: