Reference Guide

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• To copy a local file to a remote system, combine the file-origin syntax for a local file location with the
file-destination syntax for a remote file location (Table 4-2).
• To copy a remote file to a Dell Force10 system, combine the
file-origin syntax for a remote file location
with the
file-destination syntax for a local file location (Table 4-2).
Important Points to Remember
• You may not copy a file from one remote system to another.
• You may not copy a file from one location to the same location.
• When copying to a server, you can only use a hostname if a DNS server is configured.
Figure 4-9 shows an example of using the
copy command to save a file to an FTP server.
Figure 4-9. Copying a file to a Remote System
Table 4-2. Forming a copy Command
source-file-url Syntax destination-file-url Syntax
Local File Location
Internal flash:
flash
copy flash://filename flash://filename
USB flash:
usbflash
usbflash://filename usbflash://filename
Remote File Location
FTP server copy ftp://username:password@{hostip |
hostname}
/filepath/filename
ftp://username:password@{hostip
| hostname}/
filepath/filename
TFTP server copy tftp://{hostip | hostname}/filepath/
filename
tftp://{hostip | hostname}/filepath/filename
SCP server copy scp://username:password@{hostip |
hostname}
/filepath/filename
scp://username:password@{hostip
| hostname}/
filepath/filename
FTOS#copy flash://FTOS-EF-8.2.1.0.bin ftp://myusername:mypassword@10.10.10.10//FTOS/FTOS-EF-8.2.1.0
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
27952672 bytes successfully copied
Local Location
Remote Location