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Posted by Scooby on May 5, 2007, 1:55 pm
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>>> Hi. Is suspect this is not on the CCNA test, but anyone managed to
>>> backup switch info to a TFTP server? I've got as far as 'copy nvram
>>> tftp' but then it just gives me 'incomplete command'. If I type a '?'
>>> afterwards I get 'unrecognised command'. I'm running a lowly 1900 V8.01,
>>> so probably not worth bothering about - just bugging me as I intend to
>>> beak my systems as much as possible over this long weekend.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> PM
>>>
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>> You very well might see this on the CCNA test.
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>> You don't need to specify NVRAM, but if you specify a file system, you
>> need to specify what from the file system. The easier way would be just
>> to do a 'copy startup-config tftp', or the abridged version of 'copy
>> start tftp'.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>>
>> Jim
>>
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> Hi. Thanks. Took a little more digging after that, but it looks like I
> have it working. The command syntax that worked for me was:
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> copy nvram tftp://n.n.n.n/filename
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> I had a bit of trouble with that, so set up some shares on my W2K
> Professional machine, so as example, the exact syntax I ended up with, and
> did work was:
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> copy nvram tftp://192.168.0.252/cisco/tftp/switch1/1900_1
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> Though note that before I did anything, I used the menus and found:
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> [F} Firmware, then option
> [S] TFTP Server Name or IP Address
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> I set the n.n.n.252 there first.
>
> Hmm... will have to play about a bit more, but have learned something
> today.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> PM
>
Ack, I think I missed the line where this is a 1900. No, you won't see that
on the CCNA, but you may see the format that I mentioned with is for the IOS
flavors. Glad you've got it working though :-)
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