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Aurel
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Dec 11, 2013

Backup user account for pull backup ?

Hi,   I'm trying to consider backup of my Bigips, allowing a remote machine to pull ucs archives. I'm trying to setup an account with specific privileges, not to allow full system access but i can...
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adrock_1854
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Dec 12, 2013

What version are the BIG-IPs you wish to backup?

 

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Aurel
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Dec 26, 2013
They choose to generate themself the archive. That means their machine have full access with the root account. Until the machine is not compromised, it should be ok. That's definitely not the way i would choose, but they know about my opinion and will assume any further issue.