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Catalyst 3550 Multilayer Switch Command Reference
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Chapter 2 Catalyst 3550 Switch Cisco IOS Commands
archive upload-sw
archive upload-sw
Use the archive upload-sw privileged EXEC command to upload an existing switch image to a server.
archive upload-sw [/version version_string] destination-url
Syntax Description
Defaults Uploads the currently running image from the flash: file system.
Command Modes Privileged EXEC
Command History
Usage Guidelines The upload feature is available only if the HTML files associated with the device manager have been
installed with the existing image.
The files are uploaded in this sequence: info, the Cisco IOS image, the HTML files, and info.ver. After
these files are uploaded, the software creates the tar file.
Image names are case sensitive.
Examples This example shows how to upload the currently running image to a TFTP server at 172.20.140.2:
Switch# archive upload-sw tftp://172.20.140.2/test-image.tar
/version version_string (Optional) Specify the specify version string of the image to be uploaded.
destination-url The destination URL alias for a local or network file system. These options
are supported:
• 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 the Remote Copy Protocol (RCP):
rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/image-name.tar
• The syntax for the TFTP:
tftp:[[//location]/directory]/image-name.tar
The image-name.tar is the name of the software image to be stored on the
server.
Release Modification
12.1(4)EA1 This command was introduced.