Flash file location in 6500 Core switch

[ambivert skill]

Hi ,

Please guide me what is location of flash file in 6500 Series switch and how can we take back of IOS image for 6500 series.

Thank you

[Marvin Rhoads]

The location name varie accoring to your 6500 supervisor model and how it's been configured. It can be flash:, bootflash:, disk0:, disk1:, sup-bootflash:, etc.

You can check your switch from command line using "show version" and examine output for the configured location of the boot image. You can also check using "show bootvar" and "dir all".

[ambivert skill]

Thank you Sir for information , by running command show version the information on 6500 is like this

"sup-bootdisk:s72033-advipservicesk9_wan-vz.122-18.SXF11.bin"

I need to find how can we take backup/restore of IOS Image file , acutally we are going to make some major changes by adding module to 6500 Chasis so I need to figure out the backup policy that we can use in any unwanted situation.

Regards

Ambivert Skill

[Marvin Rhoads]

You're welcome.

People seldom backup the actual IOS image binary file since it is usually just as easy to pull a new copy from cisco.com.

The more useful file is the running-config. You can most easily get a one time copy of that by just setting terminal length to 0 ("term len 0"), turning on logging on your shell tool and then typing "show run". The log file will now have a local copy of your running-config. You can also copy it via the cli using tftp, ftp, scp etc. transport methods.

Many open source and commercial products also allow you to automate that whole process for many devices. RANCID, Kiwi CatTools, SolarWinds NCM, Cisco Prime LMS, etc. all do that (and much more).

Please rate helpful posts and mark your question as answered when it is.

[ambivert skill]

Thank you Sir.

Regards

Ambivert Skill