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Catalyst 3560 Switch Command Reference
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Chapter 2 Catalyst 3560 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 Use the upload feature only if the HTML files associated with the embedded device manager have been
installed with the existing image.
The files are uploaded in this sequence: the Cisco IOS image, the HTML files, and info. After these files
are uploaded, the software creates the tar file.
Image names are case sensitive.
/version version_string (Optional) Specify the specific 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 an HTTP server:
http://[[username:password]@]{hostname |
host-ip}[/directory]/image-name.tar
• The syntax for a secure HTTP server:
https://[[username:password]@]{hostname |
host-ip}[/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 software image to be stored on the
server.
Release Modification
12.1(19)EA1 This command was introduced.