Cisco's Archive Command

I find the archive command to be very useful, not just for extracting files, but for creating copies of the IOS on one device (to copy to other devices.) You can copy single files over tftp, of course, but what do you do about a directory, with all the binaries and HTML files?


archive /create myarchive.tar name_of_directory_in_flash

So, I may do a 

dir flash:

and find something like


c1140-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA

I'd create an archive called c1140-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA.tar by doing this:

archive /create c1140-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA.tar c1140-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA

I can then do a

copy flash:c1140-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA.tar tftp://my.ip.address.of.tftp.server/c1140-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA.tar