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francisco_1_162
Nimbostratus
Feb 12, 2008BIGIP (LTM/GTM) Automated Backup
Just a quick question guys, is it possible to automate the backup configuration for the BIGIP. I have read a doc on askf5 to manaually backup and restore config's but i dont have time to do that. Please advise.
- Leon_Kyneur_542
Nimbostratus
Simple answer = yes. Add /bin/bigpipe config save /path/to/backup.ucs to your system crontab daily/hourly/weekly/whatever. - francisco_1_162
Nimbostratus
leonkyneur, - JRahm
Admin
The bigip is linux under the hood, so a google search for system-related management will help you out next time. - francisco_1_162
Nimbostratus
Like i said i am not linux expert but the command below do i execute on the BIGIP under the CLI to create a file in /etc/cron.daily (daily backup) that will archive ymy configuration to /var/tmp/daily_archive.ucs? - dennypayne
Employee
Yes, you can just execute those lines in sequence on the CLI. Be aware though that this may not survive an upgrade of the unit. - francisco_1_162
Nimbostratus
good stuff. thanks all for your help.... - francisco_1_162
Nimbostratus
ok. now i have a file called "config_archive" under /etc/con.daily and also under /var/tmp/ i have my daily backup file "daily_archive.ucs" . Now is it possible to name daily backup file (with date tag) under /var/tmp/ for each day instead of having just one daily_archive.ucs file? so each day i can have a backup file with the date and time. - dennypayne
Employee
I'm sure you could change the line in the config_archive to output something using a date variable instead of just "daily_archive.ucs" but you would eventually run into disk space problems if that wasn't cleaned up regularly. Is your BIG-IP configuration really changing daily? Most of the time it is sufficient to create and store an archive at the point each configuration change is made, which is easily done in the GUI after you have made your changes. - francisco_1_162
Nimbostratus
Denny, - francisco_1_162
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Denny,
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