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Transferring Switch Configurations
For a Unix TFTP server, the file permissions for the OS file do not allow
the file to be copied.
Another console session (through either a direct connection to a terminal
device or through Telnet) was already running when you started the
session in which the download was attempted.
Not e If an error occurs in which normal switch operation cannot be restored, the
switch automatically reboots itself. In this case, an appropriate message is
displayed after the switch reboots.
Transferring Switch Configurations
Transfer Features
Feature Default Menu CLI Web
use TFTP to copy from a remote
host to a config file
use TFTP to copy a config file to a
remote host
use Xmodem to copy a
configuration from a serially
connected host to a config file
Use Xmodem to copy a config file
to a serially connected host
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Using the CLI commands described in this section, you can copy switch
configurations to and from a switch.
TFTP: Copying a Configuration from a Remote Host.
Syntax: copy tftp <startup-config | running-config> <ip-address> <remote-file>
This command copies a configuration from a remote host to the startup-config
file in the switch. (See
Chapter 5, “Using Primary and Secondary Flash Image
Options” for information on the startup-config file.)
For example, to download a configuration file named sw5300 in the configs
directory on drive “d” in a remote host having an IP address of 10.28.227.105:
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