Backup script for F5 LTM and FTP the UCS off to another server

it might help if you tell which errors you get, have you set all variables correctly?

But it keeps throwing errors

what is the error message?

Can you provide some information on the errors please? Perhaps you have an old version that contains bigpipe commands?

Are the HTML tags in your script or is that just something DC has added? If they are in your script I'd suggest you copy and paste the script from the website again in a way that doesn't include the tags.

this is mine.

 bigip

[root@ve11a:Standby:Not All Devices Synced] config  /var/tmp/backup_cron_scriptv11.sh
+ tmsh save /sys ucs /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup
Saving active configuration...
/var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup.ucs is saved.
++ date +%y%m%d
+ export a=130905
+ a=130905
+ export aa=ve11a.acme.com.130905.ucs
+ aa=ve11a.acme.com.130905.ucs
+ export b=/var/tmp/ve11a.acme.com.130905.ucs
+ b=/var/tmp/ve11a.acme.com.130905.ucs
+ mv /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup.ucs /var/tmp/ve11a.acme.com.130905.ucs
+ tar -cf /var/tmp/certs.tar /config/ssl
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
+ export ff=ve11a.acme.com.130905.certs.tar
+ ff=ve11a.acme.com.130905.certs.tar
+ export f=/var/tmp/ve11a.acme.com.130905.certs.tar
+ f=/var/tmp/ve11a.acme.com.130905.certs.tar
+ mv /var/tmp/certs.tar /var/tmp/ve11a.acme.com.130905.certs.tar
+ export c=ve11a.acme.com.130905.crontab
+ c=ve11a.acme.com.130905.crontab
+ export cc=/var/tmp/ve11a.acme.com.130905.crontab
+ cc=/var/tmp/ve11a.acme.com.130905.crontab
+ cp /etc/crontab /var/tmp/ve11a.acme.com.130905.crontab
+ export MName=200.200.200.101
+ MName=200.200.200.101
+ export Log=/var/tmp/log.bigip
+ Log=/var/tmp/log.bigip
+ export UserName=root
+ UserName=root
+ export UserPassword=password
+ UserPassword=password
+ export Machine1f2=ve11a.acme.com.130905.ucs
+ Machine1f2=ve11a.acme.com.130905.ucs
+ export Machine1f3=ve11a.acme.com.130905.crontab
+ Machine1f3=ve11a.acme.com.130905.crontab
+ export Machine1f4=ve11a.acme.com.130905.certs.tar
+ Machine1f4=ve11a.acme.com.130905.certs.tar
+ ftp -nvd 200.200.200.101
+ rm -f /var/tmp/ve11a.acme.com.130905.ucs
+ rm -f /var/tmp/ve11a.acme.com.130905.crontab
+ rm -f /var/tmp/ve11a.acme.com.130905.certs.tar
+ RTN_CODE=0
+ exit 0

 ftpd

[root@centos101 ~] ls -l ve*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1679360 Sep  5 01:39 ve11a.acme.com.130905.certs.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     253 Sep  5 01:39 ve11a.acme.com.130905.crontab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  732092 Sep  5 01:39 ve11a.acme.com.130905.ucs

Backups are much simplified in 11.4 with the introduction of iCall. I wrote up an iCall-based backup solution a while back, and the iApp template here in the wiki.

I think the problem that I am having might have to do with the fact I am possibly not running the script as the root account. The tmsh save /sys ucs /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup command won't run from the command line unless I give the tmsh command first. I copied the script into the etc/cron.daily and have been running it manually to see if it works.

The problem with the script file was it contained carriage returns. I removed them and the script appears to run...but it is now prompting for a password.

If I enter the FTP password I then get failed login.

If I use the FTP command from the command line and enter in the username and password it connects to the remote server without an issue.

does your username or password contain any special characters that might cause issues? you could try with a simple username / password (just letters) first to check if it does.

Here is the code:

!/bin/sh -x

Name: backup_cron_scriptv11.sh

BIG-IP Backup Script

This script automates LTM v11 Backups and saves the files with hostname and date off to an FTP server
version 1.0
Author: Bhattman
Original Date: 01/07/10
Modified by Yih Wen 30/11/12

tmsh save /sys ucs /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup export a=date +"%y%m%d" export aa=$HOSTNAME.$a.ucs export b=/var/tmp/$aa mv /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup.ucs $b 
tar -cf /var/tmp/certs.tar /config/ssl
export ff=$HOSTNAME.$a.certs.tar export f=/var/tmp/$ff mv /var/tmp/certs.tar $f 

Added By Ed Elias 11/26/02
export c=$HOSTNAME.$a.crontab export cc=/var/tmp/$c cp /etc/crontab $cc 
export MName=192.168.10.10 export Log=/var/tmp/log.bigip 
export UserName=testuser export UserPassword=testpassword 

Added and Updated by Ed Elias 11/14/07
export Machine1f2=$aa export Machine1f3=$c export Machine1f4=$ff ftp -nvd ${MName} <<-END 1>&2 > ${Log} user ${UserName} ${UserPassword} bin put ${b} ${Machine1f2} put ${cc} ${Machine1f3} put ${f} ${Machine1f4} quit END rm -f ${b} rm -f ${cc} rm -f ${f} RTN_CODE=$? 
exit $RTN_CODE 
Here is what I am seeing:
[testuser@F5:Active:In Sync] cron.daily  sh -x ./f5backupv11.sh + tmsh save /sys ucs /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup Saving active configuration... /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup.ucs is saved. ++ date +%y%m%d + export a=130909 + a=130909 + export aa=f5.test.com.130909.ucs + aa=f5.test.com.130909.ucs + export b=/var/tmp/f5.test.com.130909.ucs + b=/var/tmp/f5.test.com.130909.ucs + mv /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup.ucs /var/tmp/f5.test.com.130909.ucs + tar -cf /var/tmp/certs.tar /config/ssl tar: Removing leading `/' from member names + export ff=f5.test.com.130909.certs.tar + ff=f5.test.com.130909.certs.tar + export f=/var/tmp/f5.test.com.130909.certs.tar + f=/var/tmp/f5.test.com.130909.certs.tar + mv /var/tmp/certs.tar /var/tmp/f5.test.com.130909.certs.tar + export c=f5.test.com.130909.crontab + c=f5.test.com.130909.crontab + export cc=/var/tmp/f5.test.com.130909.crontab + cc=/var/tmp/f5.test.com.130909.crontab + cp /etc/crontab /var/tmp/f5.test.com.130909.crontab + export MName=192.168.10.10 + MName=192.168.10.10 + export Log=/var/tmp/log.bigip + Log=/var/tmp/log.bigip + export UserName=testuser + UserName=testuser + export UserPassword=testpassword + UserPassword=testpassword + export Machine1f2=f5.test.com.130909.ucs + Machine1f2=f5.test.com.130909.ucs + export Machine1f3=f5.test.com.130909.crontab + Machine1f3=f5.test.com.130909.crontab + export Machine1f4=f5.test.com.130909.certs.tar + Machine1f4=f5.test.com.130909.certs.tar + ftp -n -vd 192.168.10.10 Here is what it is showing in the logs: [testuser@F5:Active:In Sync] tmp  vi log.bigip Connected to 192.168.10.10 (192.168.10.10). 220 testsrv X2 WS_FTP Server 6.1.1(82011250) ---> SYST 503 Command SYST not accepted during Connected ---> USER testuser 331 Enter password ---> PASS XXXX 230 User logged in ---> TYPE I 200 Transfer mode set to BINARY local: /var/tmp/f5.test.com.130909.ucs remote: f5.test.com.130909.ucs ---> PASV ~