Automatic configuration backup on LTM box

O that is great Thomas man you rock...

Hi Guys, Coming back to this same thread I have come across a point where there are multiple backup servers and the health of them should be checked and one of them will be on priority till it is up how can this be integrated to the above scripting.

Regards,

Hi,

Here is the newest version for your script 🙂

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

tmsh show cm failover-status | grep ACTIVE

if [ "$?" = "0" ] ; then
    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
fi

Let me know if it fits your needs.

Hi Thomas,

Super newbie question. 1. How to write the given script? and where to save it? 2. Once the script is written, do I need to put that in cron for cyclic execution?

Sorry for such question.

Thank you, Cheers!

Hi,

You can write this script and save it wherever you want. You can do it with your favorite text editor (notepad, vim, nano...)

To execute this script you have 2 choices, the first one is manually and the best one is using cron.

Here is an example of what you have to write into your crontab file :

0   1 * * * "tmsh save sys ucs my_file_name"
15  1 * * * "scp /var/local/ucs/my_file_name user@your_destination_server:path  

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

Thank you guys! It was much helpful.

Hi,

We are trying to automate the backup using external monitor.Tried using the below script.Looks like monitor is marking the pool as UP but the content(UCS)is not getting copied over to the destination. Please suggest.

IP=

echo ${1} | sed 's/::ffff://'

basename ${0}

if [ -f $PIDFILE ] then kill -9

cat $PIDFILE

if [ $? -eq 0 ] then echo "UP" fi rm -f $PIDFILE exit