Automatic backup of BIGIP LTM

Hi , I have configured 00 3 * * * tmsh save /sys ucs /var/ucs/XYZ. ucs in crontab for automatically store the UCS backup file in F5 .

Now pls let me know step by step procedure for automated FTP Backup

Can Anybody help on this ?

You just have to make some changes on the script upper.

With my script below, your UCS will have the date as filename.

Here it is :

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

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

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

What you have to define is : Your_Username, Password and Backup_Directory

You just have to make some changes on the script upper.

With my script below, your UCS will have the date as filename.

Here it is :

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

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

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

What you have to define is : Your_Username, Password and Backup_Directory

In crontab, you have 2 options :

The first one is to add your script in : /etc/cron.weekly/

0 4 * * 0 Your_script

It will run your script every week (on Sunday) at 4am.

In crontab, you have 2 options :

The first one is to add your script in : /etc/cron.weekly/

0 4 * * 0 Your_script

It will run your script every week (on Sunday) at 4am.

I prefer to go with Config Backup for F5 utility its a VM appliance with GUI interface and very easy to manage.find it in below link http://sourceforge.net/projects/f5configbackup/

suggest to get an Manager Software like AppViewX or EM or Big iQ for basic maintenance of the F5s

I wrote a script to run "tmsh save /sys ucs" on each of a set of LTMs, download the resulting archive, then expand it and store the changes in git. Here's a copy of it, cleaned up for distribution a little bit.

!/bin/sh


 f5-backup: create UCS backups of a list of BIG-IP F5 devices
 (most likely Local Traffic Managers, aka LTMs)

 See https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/100/sol13132.html

 Author: O'Shaughnessy Evans, 2015-09


trap sigdie INT QUIT
umask 022

 safety checks:  exit on unset variables and errors, don't expand *
set -o nounset
set -o errexit
set -o noglob

ME=${0*/}
HOSTS=${*:-"FIX: put your default hosts here"}
BACKUP_DIR=$HOME/var/f5
BACKUP_USER=rancid
REMOTE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp


 sigdie() - Signal handler that reports the cause of death (barely)

function sigdie
{
    die $EX_OSERR "killed"
}


 Make sure we're running as the intended backup user.
 This ensures that ssh always runs under the same conditions
 and that directories relative to $HOME are always the same.
if [[ "$USER" != "$BACKUP_USER" ]]; then
    echo "fatal error: running as $USER; please invoke as $BACKUP_USER" >&2
    exit 2
fi

remote_backup=$REMOTE_TMPDIR/backup-$(date +%F).ucs
for host in $HOSTS; do
    local_backup=$host-$(date +%F).tar.gz

    cd $BACKUP_DIR
    [[ -d $host ]] || mkdir $host
    cd $host

    echo " Creating UCS backup for $host"
    echo ""
    echo "    tmsh save /sys ucs ..."
    ssh $host tmsh save /sys ucs $remote_backup 2>&1 |sed 's,^,    tmsh save: ,'
    echo ""

    echo "* Downloading"
    echo ""
            echo "    $remote_backup -> $local_backup"
    scp -o 'StrictHostKeyChecking no' -q $host:$remote_backup $local_backup 2>&1 |sed 's,^,    scp: ,'
    gunzip -c $local_backup |tar xf -
    rm $local_backup
    echo ""

    echo "* Saving change in Git"
    echo ""
    git add . |sed 's,^,    git-add:     ,'
    git commit -m"$ME: automated backup of $host at $(date)" |sed 's,^,    git-commit: ,'
    git push 2>&1 |sed 's,^,    git-push:    ,'

    echo ""
done

You'll want to change a few things:

• Where you see "FIX: put your default hosts here", replace it with a space-separated list of the hostnames you're backing up. Alternatively, you can pass the list of hostnames on the command line when you run the script.
• Assign the username of the user ID you're running the backup script as to

  BACKUP_USER

  .
• Assign the directory where you want to maintain your git repo to

  BACKUP_DIR

  .

I wrote it assuming that

$BACKUP_USER

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048

~/.ssh/authorized_keys

You'll want to initialize

$BACKUP_DIR

To recover with the contents of this repository, you would need to check out the repo, remove the .git subdir, then tar it up and gzip it. The result should be the same as the last

tmsh save /sys ucs