Cisco 2950 Software Configuration Guide - Page 650

Working with the Flash File System Appendix B Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images Use the /recursive keyword for deleting a directory and all subdirectories and the files contained in it. Use the /force keyword to suppress the prompting that confirms a deletion of each file in the directory. You are prompted only once at the beginning of this deletion process. Use the /force and /recursive keywords for deleting old software images that were installed by using the archive download-sw command but are no longer needed. If you omit the filesystem: option, the switch uses the default device specified by the cd command. For file-url, you specify the path (directory) and the name of the file to be deleted. If you attempt to delete the file specified by the CONFIG_FILE or BOOT environment variable, the system prompts you to confirm the deletion. If you attempt to delete the last valid system image specified in the BOOT environment variable, the system prompts you to confirm the deletion. Caution When files are deleted, their contents cannot be recovered. This example shows how to delete the file myconfig from the default flash memory device: Switch# delete myconfig Creating, Displaying, and Extracting tar Files You can create a tar file and write files into it, list the files in a tar file, and extract the files from a tar file as described in the next sections. Creating a tar File To create a tar file and write files into it, use the privileged EXEC command: archive tar /create destination-url flash:/file-url For destination-url, specify the destination URL alias for the local or network file system and the name of the tar file to create. These options are supported: • For the local flash file system, the syntax is flash: • For the FTP, the syntax is ftp:[[//username[:password]@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar • For the RCP, the syntax is rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar • For the TFTP, the syntax is tftp:[[//location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar The tar-filename.tar is the tar file to be created. For flash:/file-url, specify the location on the local flash file system from which the new tar file is created. You can also specify an optional list of files or directories within the source directory to write to the new tar file. If none are specified, all files and directories at this level are written to the newly created tar file. This example shows how to create a tar file. This command writes the contents of the new-configs directory on the local flash device to a file named saved.tar on the TFTP server at 172.20.10.30: Switch# archive tar /create tftp:172.20.10.30/saved.tar flash:/new-configs Catalyst 2950 and Catalyst 2955 Switch Software Configuration Guide B-6 78-11380-10