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Transferring an Operating System or Startup Configuration File
Transferring Switch Configurations
Transferring an Operating
System or Startup
■ 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.
Note 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 in the copyright screen that appears after the switch reboots.
Transferring Switch Configurations
Transfer Features
Using the CLI commands described in this section, you can copy switch
configurations to and from a switch.
TFTP: Retrieving a Configuration from a Remote Host.
Syntax: copy tftp startup-config <ip-address> <remote-file>
This command copies a configuration from a remote host to the startup-config
file in the switch. (See appendix C, “Switch Memory and Configuration” for
information on the startup-config file.)
For example, to download a configuration file named sw2512 in the configs
directory on drive “d” in a remote host having an IP address of 13.28.227.105:
SMC TigerSwitch 10/100# copy tftp startup-config
13.28.227.105 d:\configs\sw2512
Feature Default Menu CLI Web
use TFTP to copy a configuration
from a remote host to the startup-
config file
n/a — below
use TFTP to copy the startup-
config file to a remote host
n/a — page A-10
use Xmodem to copy a
configuration from a serially
connected host to the startup-
config file
n/a — page A-10
Use Xmodem to copy the startup-
config file to a serially connected
host
n/a — page A-11