Installation guide

CHAPTER

6-1

Cisco 6260 Hardware Installation Guide

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Upgrading and Maintaining the

Cisco 6260 System

This chapter describes upgrade and maintenance procedures for the Cisco 6260 system.

6.1 Backing Up Software

We recommend that you maintain, on a TFTP server, current copies of three files for each

Cisco 6260 system:

• The Cisco IOS software image

• The configuration file (running-config)

• The bootflash file

If you keep copies of these files on a TFTP server, you can easily recover from a fault in an NI-2 card:

simply replace the NI-2 card, and download the software image and configuration file from the TFTP

server. Remember to update your backup files whenever you change your configuration or upgrade your

Cisco IOS software.

Complete the following steps to copy the Cisco IOS software image and configuration file to a

TFTP server:

Step 1 Log in to the Cisco 6260 node whose software you wish to back up.

Step 2 Enter the dir command to display the names of the files:

6260# dir

Step 3 Enter a copy command to copy the IOS software file to the node TFTP server:

6260# copy bootflash:<image-name> tftp

Step 4 Enter a second copy command to copy the configuration file to the node TFTP server:

6260# copy running-config tftp