Impossible to copy Cisco 3560 Switch IOS using TFTP Server

[taonrez]

Hi Team,

I am trying to copy Cisco 3560 Switch IOS image to my PC. But I can't.

IP address of my switch is: 10.1.1.10/24 and IP address of my PC is: 10.1.1.15/24.

I am using this process:

Switch#copy tftp flash
Address or name of remote host [10.1.1.15]?
Source filename [c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5]?
Destination filename [c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5]?
%Warning:There is a file already existing with this name
Do you want to over write? [confirm]

Please, Can you Help me?

Thank you in advance

[Flavio Miranda]

Hi @taonrez 

 It is only informing you that you already have a file with the same name on the destination. Just type ender and the current file will be overwriten.

[taonrez]

Hi,

The destination folder is empty

[Leo Laohoo]

The switch will not boot that "file" because the file extension is absent.

[taonrez]

Hi,

Please, what do yo suggest me?

[Leo Laohoo]

Download the TAR file and then use the command "archive download-sw tftp://10.1.1.15/filename.tar"

That is the solution.  

[balaji.bandi]

You are copy from TFTP to FLASH

Source filename [c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5]?  - is this correct file name - most of the time its .bin file

%Warning:There is a file already existing with this name   

so check in the Flash any files.

#dir /all  (check any filename or folder name as same)

for testing

Copy runn tftp (check is the TFTP working as expected)

also copy TFTP to Flash - using different name to Flash see that works.

[taonrez]

Hi,

I tried this method but it doesn't work as you can see below.

Switch#dir /all
Directory of flash:/

2 -rwx 1372 Mar 1 1993 00:05:33 +00:00 config.text
3 -rwx 1340 Mar 1 1993 01:05:15 +00:00 config.text.renamed
4 -rwx 2536 Mar 1 1993 00:00:33 +00:00 vlan.dat.renamed
5 drwx 192 Mar 1 1993 00:06:34 +00:00 c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5
463 -rwx 5 Mar 1 1993 01:05:15 +00:00 private-config.text.renamed
464 -rwx 5 Mar 1 1993 00:05:33 +00:00 private-config.text

15998976 bytes total (6939648 bytes free)
Switch#

Switch#archive download-sw tftp://10.1.1.15/c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5
Could not buffer tarfile...using multiple downloads
examining image...
%Error opening tftp://10.1.1.15/c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5 (No such file or directory)
%Error opening flash:update/info (No such file or directory)
ERROR: Image is not a valid IOS image archive.
Switch#

I also tried the following method, but it doesn't work:

Switch#archive upload-sw tftp://10.1.1.15/c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5
!
System software to be uploaded:
System Type: 0x00000000.....
unable to write tar archive.....
Switch#

[Leo Laohoo]

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@taonrez wrote:
archive download-sw tftp://10.1.1.15/c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5

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Please try:  archive download-sw tftp://10.1.1.15/c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5.tar

[taonrez]

Hi,

I tried but it doesn't work.

Switch#archive download-sw tftp://10.1.1.15/c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5.tar
Could not buffer tarfile...using multiple downloads
examining image...
%Error opening tftp://10.1.1.15/c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5.tar (No such file or directory)
%Error opening flash:update/info (No such file or directory)
ERROR: Image is not a valid IOS image archive.

[Leo Laohoo]

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@taonrez wrote:
%Error opening tftp://10.1.1.15/c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5.tar (No such file or directory)

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Look at the error message.  What does the item I have highlighted in RED mean?