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francisco_1_162
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Feb 12, 2008

BIGIP (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. Ple...
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JRahm
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Feb 13, 2008
The bigip is linux under the hood, so a google search for system-related management will help you out next time.

 

 

This will create a file in /etc/cron.daily (daily backup) that will archive your configuration to /var/tmp/daily_archive.ucs.

 

 

echo \\!\/bin\/bash > /etc/cron.daily/config_archive

 

echo " " >> /etc/cron.daily/config_archive

 

echo \/bin\/bigpipe config save \/var\/tmp\/daily_archive.ucs >> /etc/cron.daily/config_archive

 

chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/config_archive