Copying the UFI and Manifest Packages from System Flash to a USB Drive

Beginning with FastIron 09.0.10a, you can copy the UFI and manifest packages from system flash to a USB drive using the CLI. The same USB drive can be plugged-in to another system for copying the UFI and manifest packages. You can make a backup of the UFI or manifest packages to a USB drive before performing any upgrade process.

The USB status mode LED blinks green to show that the UFI or manifest copy is in progress. The LED turns to steady green once the copy is completed successfully. If the copy fails, either due to a flash read issue or USB access or write issue, the LED blinks amber to notify you of the failure. During the entire operation of the UFI or manifest copy, the flash will be locked to avoid any other flash operations.

If there is not enough file system space available in the USB drive, the following error message is displayed:

Not enough space on the filesystem to copy the source file.

While copying the manifest package from flash to the USB drive, the system copies the manifest file, UFI, UFI signature, and configuration files. Beginning with FastIron 09.0.10a, the manifest package contains only the UFI for all ICX devices.

Commands for Copying from Flash to a USB Device

To initiate the copy of UFI from flash to a USB drive using the CLI, use the following commands:

  • copy flash disk0 ufi-primary image-file: Use this command to copy the UFI of the primary partition to the USB drive in the name as specified by image-file.
  • copy flash disk0 ufi-secondary image-file: Use this command to copy the UFI of the secondary partition to the USB drive in the name as specified by image-file.
  • copy flash disk0 system-manifest: Use this command to copy the manifest package on the UFI of the current running partition and UFI signature to a USB drive.

Limitations

When one partition has a legacy image (for example, FastIron 08.0.70) and another partition has a UFI, copying the UFI and manifest package to a USB drive from a partition that has the legacy image is not supported.

If there is a flash corruption in the system, the configurations, logs, and the UFI will be lost. In such a case, copying the UFI and manifest package to a USB drive is not possible. However, you can copy the FastIron image to a USB drive using the copy flash disk0 command because the partition for the FastIron image is different.

Parent topic: Image download using USB