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Backing up switches
- 05-05-2007
- Paul Morris
May 5, 2007, 12:56 pm

Hi. Is suspect this is not on the CCNA test, but anyone managed to backup
switch info to a TFTP server? I've got as far as 'copy nvram tftp' but then
it just gives me 'incomplete command'. If I type a '?' afterwards I get
'unrecognised command'. I'm running a lowly 1900 V8.01, so probably not
worth bothering about - just bugging me as I intend to beak my systems as
much as possible over this long weekend.
Thanks,
PM
switch info to a TFTP server? I've got as far as 'copy nvram tftp' but then
it just gives me 'incomplete command'. If I type a '?' afterwards I get
'unrecognised command'. I'm running a lowly 1900 V8.01, so probably not
worth bothering about - just bugging me as I intend to beak my systems as
much as possible over this long weekend.
Thanks,
PM

Re: Backing up switches

You very well might see this on the CCNA test.
You don't need to specify NVRAM, but if you specify a file system, you need
to specify what from the file system. The easier way would be just to do a
'copy startup-config tftp', or the abridged version of 'copy start tftp'.
Hope that helps,
Jim

Re: Backing up switches

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Hi. Thanks. Took a little more digging after that, but it looks like I have
it working. The command syntax that worked for me was:
copy nvram tftp://n.n.n.n/filename
I had a bit of trouble with that, so set up some shares on my W2K
Professional machine, so as example, the exact syntax I ended up with, and
did work was:
copy nvram tftp://192.168.0.252/cisco/tftp/switch1/1900_1
Though note that before I did anything, I used the menus and found:
[F} Firmware, then option
[S] TFTP Server Name or IP Address
I set the n.n.n.252 there first.
Hmm... will have to play about a bit more, but have learned something today.
Thanks again,
PM
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