Cisco MDS 9000 series Command Reference Manual page 240

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Usage Guidelines

This command makes the running and the backup copy of the software identical.

A file can only be copied from an active supervisor to a standby supervisor, not from standby to active.

This command does not allow 127.x.x.x IP addresses.

The copy function will not be completed if the required space is not available in the directory. First

change to the required directory (for example, cd bootflash:) and verify the available space (for

example, dir bootflash:).

The entire copying process may take several minutes.

Do not copy a file from an external source directly to the standby supervisor. You must copy from the

external source to the active supervisor, and then copy the saved file to the standby supervisor.

You can save cores (from the active supervisor module, the standby supervisor module, or any switching

module) to an external flash (slot 0) or to a TFTP server in one of two ways:

You copy the logfile to a different location using the copy log:messages command.

The debug partition contains debugging files created by the software for troubleshooting purposes.

The running-config startup-config fabric parameters allow you to use CFS to force every switch in the

Fibre Channel fabric to copy their running configuration (source) to their startup configuration

(destination).

If any remote switch fails to complete the copy running-config startup-config fabric process, the

initiator switch also does not complete saving its startup-configuration. This means, both the remote

switch and the initiator switch have failed to save their startup-configuration (the old

startup-configuration reverts back). All the other switches in the network would have succeeded.

The following example saves your configuration to the startup configuration.

switch# copy system:running-config nvram:startup-config

The following example copies the file called samplefile from the slot0 directory to the mystorage

switch# copy slot0:samplefile slot0:mystorage/samplefile

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Command Reference

Modification

Command modified.

Added the fabric keyword and functionality.

On demand—to copy a single file based on the provided process ID.

Periodically—to copy core files periodically as configured by the user.

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