Comments on: How to backup and restore Cisco Routers switches using a FTP Server

By: Carsten

Carsten — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:32:52 +0000

mppmanu, is the IOS VSFTPD incompability issue confirmed by Cisco ?

Br,
/C

By: mpp4manu

mpp4manu — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:51:59 +0000

The Cisco IOS FTP client is very crude. In fact, we’ve discovered that Cisco IOS versions 12.2 and 12.3 do not work with vsftpd on Solaris 8 servers, but do work with the legacy Solaris FTP server, which has its own set of issues.

There is some sort of protocol problem when using vsftpd. I’m not sure what and I haven’t been able to test on other operating systems, but the version I compiled on Solaris 8 is the most recent version.

A search of the web reveals that this is a known issue that Cisco finally addressed in 12.4

By: Alemayahu

Alemayahu — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:56:22 +0000

ALL SIR GOOD UNDERSTANDING ABOUT YOUR FTP SERVER TO BACKUP&
RESTORE CONFLAGRATION ALSO PLEAS AIDING OTHER INFORMATION ABUT FTP.
THANK YOU.

By: Basti

Basti — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:40:51 +0000

@Daveson
First of all you have to write the “userame” and “password” down in the cisco switch which you have taken for the ftp-server before.

two steps:

c-switch>enable
c-switch#conf t
c-switch(config)#ip ftp username deutschland
c-switch(config)#ip ftp password berlin

By: Suresh

Suresh — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:52:53 +0000

Hey guys can someone tell me how to take a backup of multiple switches at the same time.

By: Daveson

Daveson — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:53:28 +0000

Hi,
What if the other server (ftp server ) has a user name and password, how can I includ them in the commands
Best

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:03:55 +0000

try
copy ftp://anonymous:me@ftpserver/dir/somefile.tcl flash:sfile

By: John Rattray

John Rattray — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:35:35 +0000

Ever tried the syntax where you supply the username:password@ftp-host/directory/filename , i.e. you don’t configure the username and password separately ? I have and so far haven’t got it to work…