copy all files from a flash

[jjoseph01]

Hi all.  I am trying to copy all files from a flash: on a CME to a usbflash drive.  I am able to do so, but only one at a time.  Is there a away to copy all files at one time so I dont have to name them individually when copying all of them over?  Thanks.

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

As far as I know, there in no such command on the router that you can use to do massive copy and paste.

HTH

Reza

[Leo Laohoo]

Try "copy flash:. usbflash0:".

[Ganesh Hariharan]

Hi all.  I am trying to copy all files from a flash: on a CME to a
usbflash drive.  I am able to do so, but only one at a time.  Is there
a away to copy all files at one time so I dont have to name them
individually when copying all of them over?  Thanks.

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https://cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps233/products_tech_note09186a00800a6744.shtml

Ganesh.H

[Imthiyas Khan K I]

Hi jjoseph01,

The best way is to tar all the files to your PC first, using the below command.

archive tar /create tftp://192.168.10.200/Flash_Files.tar flash:

Once all the files are copied to the tftp server,  it is easy to untar all the files to USB drive.

Imthiyas Khan

[mike.b.simpson]

This worked well for me, at least for my use case, which was a path with only files in it.  Thank you.

[Imthiyas Khan K I]

Hi Mike,

I am glad to hear that your issue is resolved.

Please rate if it really helps you :)

[Chowdary Jaladi]

Hi,

Is there any way to copy all the files at one time which are in the router to TFTP server , It is working for individual files but i have huge amount of files on the router

[freyguy]

This solution is version dependent, but this worked for me:

archive upload-sw usbflash0:/<filename.tar>   

...where <filename.tar> is the name of the tar file you want to be created on the USB drive. 

E.g. If you want the filename to be "original-software.tar"  then the command line would be:

           archive upload-sw usbflash0:/original-software.tar

FYI;

[spiritJ_OBPtech]

Plug in USB determine its name as the cli recognizes the insertion of the usb, usually appears as either usbflash0:  or usbflash1:   Note: usb name # variable of your usb drive denoted as "#" on instructions below:

cd usbflash"#":     (note: this command is not needed if you name the absolute path of your tar file.  e.g. "usbflash1:/yourtarfilename.tar"

archive tar /create yourtarfilename.tar flash:/

COMMAND SYNTAX:  archive tar /create your_tar_file_name.tar  drive_source_path:/directory/    
*note the spaces and the use of the colon after drivename and the slash after the directory path named

You can even use winrar, winzip, or 7zip to create a "*.tar" file place it in your USB (or maybe you copied an archive of another switch) then extract the archive files onto your flash: directory.

archive tar /xtract /usbflash"#":/directoryinUSB/anotherdirectory/arvhive.tar  flash:/c2960x-version-build123/  

COMMAND SYNTAX:  archive tar /xtract drive_source:/directory/tar_filename.tar  drive_destination:/folder/
*note the spaces and the use of the colon after drivename and the slash after the directory path named

To get command specifics put a ? after each word of each line to get the possible values of each syntax, e.g.   

archive tar ?   -shows the different options for manipulating tar files
archive ?     - shows different archive methods other than tar