Automatic backup of BIGIP LTM

Can Anybody suggest me how to take automatic backup in BIG IP LTM v11.2? I want to take weekly backup of system configuration automatically .

Pls help on this .

I believe Bhattman got a good script to do this task. Should be running well on v11.x

You can write a script to backup locally, we use AppViewX tool and schedule a backup of all our devices remotely. It has option to restore a single object and compare before restoring. www.appviewx.com It takes a backup and transfers it to remote system and you can define how many versions to keep.

Hi MUi,

Can you pls share the script .

if you do a google search you can find many options for building these type of scripts. such as this one https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/advdesignconfig.BIG-IP-10-2-backup-script-with-SCP-transfer.ashx

Also as Syafiq mentioned above Bhattman has a good script posted you can modify it as needed to your requirements.

Hi,

There are multiples post for this question on devcentral.

For example in this thread I suggested this script :

!/bin/bash
$DATE=`date "+%m_%d_%y"`

Here we create the ucs archive
tmsh save sys ucs $DATE

Here we copy it to your server
scp /var/local/ucs/$DATE user@ip_server:path

In the /etc/crontab file just add this :

0   1 * * * "tmsh save sys ucs my_file_name"

It will create a backup every day at 1am.

Hi,

There are multiples post for this question on devcentral.

For example in this thread I suggested this script :

!/bin/bash
$DATE=`date "+%m_%d_%y"`

Here we create the ucs archive
tmsh save sys ucs $DATE

Here we copy it to your server
scp /var/local/ucs/$DATE user@ip_server:path

In the /etc/crontab file just add this :

0   1 * * * "tmsh save sys ucs my_file_name"

It will create a backup every day at 1am.

I found this cool project to do your task. Just about to try the script.

Hi , Automatic backup is working fine and stored in local disk . We need to transfer these UCS to FTP server . can you pls assist us on the same .

Regds...Indrajit

Hi Paulraj,

The script Indajit talked about is the one I gave upper.

@Indrajit, I'm looking for uploading files with ftp into the script.

Here is the script in which I added the ftp upload section.

!/bin/bash
$DATE=`date "+%m_%d_%y"`

Here we create the ucs archive
tmsh save sys ucs $DATE

Here we copy it to your server with scp
scp /var/local/ucs/$DATE user@ip_server:path

Here we do the same with ftp
ftp -n your_server <