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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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Feb 14, 2008
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?

 

 

 

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