PurposeCommand or Action
Example:
• Enter your password if prompted.
Device> enable
(Optional) Allows you to enter global
configuration mode. This step is required only
configure terminal
Example:
Step 2
if you want to override the default remote
username or password (see Steps 3 and 4).
Device# configure terminal
(Optional) Specifies the default remote
username.
ip ftp username username
Example:
Step 3
Device(config)# ip ftp username NetAdmin1
(Optional) Specifies the default password.ip ftp password password
Example:
Step 4
Device(config)# ip ftp password
adminpassword
(Optional) Exits global configuration mode.
This step is required only if you override the
end
Example:
Step 5
default remote username or password (see Steps
3 and 4).
Device(config)# end
Using FTP copies the configuration file from a
network server to running memory or the startup
configuration.
Do one of the following:
Step 6
• copy ftp:
[[[//[username[:password]@]location]
/directory
]/filename]system:running-config
• copy ftp: [[[
//[username[:password]@]location]/directory]/filename]nvram:startup-config
Example:
Device# copy ftp:nvram:startup-config
Examples
Copy FTP Running-Config
The following example copies a host configuration file named host1-confg from the netadmin1 directory on
the remote server with an IP address of 172.16.101.101, and loads and runs the commands on the device:
device# copy ftp://netadmin1:mypass@172.16.101.101/host1-confg system:running-config
Configure using host1-confg from 172.16.101.101? [confirm]
Connected to 172.16.101.101
Loading 1112 byte file host1-confg:![OK]
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Examples