Concept Guide

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In the following example, the password is entered on the second line, and is displayed in masked text.
(host) #copy running-config ftp: 192.168.1.2 adminuser runconfig
Password: ********
Usage Guidelines
Use this command to save back-up copies of the configuration file to an FTP or TFTP server, or to load a saved
file from an FTP or TFTP server.
Three partitions reside on the file system flash. Totalling 256MB, the three partitions provide space to hold the
system image files (in partitions 1 and 2 which are 45MB each) and user files (in partition 3, which is 165MB).
System software runs on the system partitions; the database, DHCP, startup configuration, and logs are
positioned on the user partition.
To restore a database, copy the database from the network server and import the database.
To restore a configuration file, copy the file from network server to the controller’s flash system then copy the
file from the flash system to the system configuration. This ensures that you do not accidentally overwrite
your system startup configuration file.
Unlike the controller's flash, the USB device has more than two partitions; not just 0 and 1. When copying a file
from a USB device, you must know which partition the target file is on. Use the show storage command to
identify the location of the file to identify the correct USBpartition.
Example
The following commands copy the configuration file named engineering from the TFTP server to the
controller’s flash file system and then uses that file as the startup configuration. This example assumes the
startup configuration file is named default.cfg:
(host) (config) #copy tftp: 192.0.2.0 engineering flash: default.bak
copy flash: default.bak flash: default.cfg
Command History
Version Description
ArubaOS 1.0 Introduced for the first time.
ArubaOS 6.2 The usb parameter was introduced.
ArubaOS 6.5 The flash: parameter was introduced to copy files from an FTP server.
Command Information
Platforms Licensing Command Mode
All platforms Base operating system Enable and Config modes on master
controllers