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Cisco 3200 Series Router Hardware Reference
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Chapter 7      Managing Firmware and Configurations
  Working with Software Images
Downloading an Image File by Using RCP
You can download a new image file and replace or keep the current image. 
Caution
For the download and upload algorithms to operate properly, do not rename image directories.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow Steps 1 through 6 to download a new image from an RCP 
server and overwrite the existing image. To keep the current image, skip Step 6.
Command
Purpose
Step 1
Verify that the RCP server is properly configured by 
referring to the 
Step 2
Log in to the WMIC through a Telnet session.
Step 3
configure terminal
Enters global configuration mode.
This step is required only if you override the default remote 
username (see Steps 4 and 5). 
Step 4
ip rcmd remote-username username
(Optional) Specifies the remote username.
Step 5
end
Returns to privileged EXEC mode. 
Step 6
archive download-sw /overwrite /reload 
rcp:
[[[//[username@]location]/directory]/image-na
me
.tar
Downloads the image file from the RCP server to the 
WMIC, and overwrite the current image.
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The /overwrite option overwrites the software image in 
flash with the downloaded image.
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The /reload option reloads the system after 
downloading the image unless the configuration has 
been changed and not saved.
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For //username, specify the username. For the RCP copy 
request to execute successfully, an account must be 
defined on the network server for the remote username. 
For more information, see th
.
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For @location, specify the IP address of the RCP server.
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For /directory/image-name.tar, specify the directory 
(optional) and the image to download. Directory and 
image names are case sensitive.