c2960: strange working for archive feature

[YuryKozlov]

Hello.

I setup archiving on

cisco WS-C2960 ver 122-50.SE1

archive
path ftp://login:pass@172.20.1.1/backup/cc-net1-sw1_
write-memory
time-period 1440

Command 'archive config' is working and the file with config

is created.

9027 May 26 10:17 cc-net1-sw1_May-26-10-17-16-0

Today new file was created automatically

193 May 27 09:19 cc-net1-sw1_May-27-09-19-16-1

But it is very small (193 bytes long) and his contents is empty.

!
! Last configuration change at 10:17:14 MSD Wed May 26 2010 by admin
! NVRAM config last updated at 10:17:14 MSD Wed May 26 2010 by admin
!
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
!
!
!
!
!
!
end

Why? How to fix it?

WBR,

Yuri Kozlov

[Joe Clarke · Accepted solution]

This is due to CSCtf51974.  It will be fixed in 12.2(55)SE.  As a workaround, you could schedule an archive to happen using kron.  For example, to auto-archive the config every minute:

kron occurrence archive-config in 1:0 recurring
 policy-list archive-config
!
kron policy-list archive-config
 cli archive config