How do you backup a Cisco 2950 IOS image?

[hbautista]

I cant find anything on how to do this on Cisco's website or any other place for that matter.

[amit-singh]

Hector,

To back up the IOS from the switch you need to use the copy commands. If you are in rommon prompt you need to use Xmodem command again.

If you are on enable prompt then command is :

Copy flash: tftp:

after you give this command it will ask you the IP address of the TFTP server.

If you are in rommon prompt

copy xmodem flash:

after that go to transfer option and select recieve file option and set the directory to or path where you want to store the file.

Please go thorugh the link for detailed description.

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat2950/12122ea5/2950scg/swiosfs.htm

regards,

-amit singh

[thisisshanky]

Hector,

The copy tftp method is the most commonly used method to copy files from flash to a TFTP server or vice versa. But if you have CMS (cluster management suite) instlled on your flash, there will be an associated html folder and many other files that are extracted in flash. To upload these files, along with the IOS image, you will need to use the following command.

archive upload-sw tftp:///IOS-CMS2950.tar

This will compress all the files (IOS and CMS files) together in a tar (compressed) format and upload it to the TFTP server specified by

Copying each of the above files individually will consume a lot of time.