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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Command Reference
OL-8413-07, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
Chapter 4 C Commands
copy
Defaults None.
Command Modes EXEC mode.
Command History
Usage Guidelines This command makes the running and the backup copy of the software identical.
A file can only be copied from an active supervisor to a standby supervisor, not from standby to active.
This command does not allow 127.x.x.x IP addresses.
The copy function will not be completed if the required space is not available in the directory. First
change to the required directory (for example, cd bootflash:) and verify the available space (for
example, dir bootflash:).
The entire copying process may take several minutes.
Do not copy a file from an external source directly to the standby supervisor. You must copy from the
external source to the active supervisor, and then copy the saved file to the standby supervisor.
You can save cores (from the active supervisor module, the standby supervisor module, or any switching
module) to an external flash (slot 0) or to a TFTP server in one of two ways:
• On demand—to copy a single file based on the provided process ID.
• Periodically—to copy core files periodically as configured by the user.
You copy the logfile to a different location using the copy log:messages command.
The debug partition contains debugging files created by the software for troubleshooting purposes.
The running-config startup-config fabric parameters allow you to use CFS to force every switch in the
Fibre Channel fabric to copy their running configuration (source) to their startup configuration
(destination).
Note If any remote switch fails to complete the copy running-config startup-config fabric process, the
initiator switch also does not complete saving its startup-configuration. This means, both the remote
switch and the initiator switch have failed to save their startup-configuration (the old
startup-configuration reverts back). All the other switches in the network would have succeeded.
Examples The following example saves your configuration to the startup configuration.
switch# copy system:running-config nvram:startup-config
The following example copies the file called samplefile from the slot0 directory to the mystorage
directory.
switch# copy slot0:samplefile slot0:mystorage/samplefile
Release Modification
1.3(4) Command modified.
2.1(1a) Added the fabric keyword and functionality.
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