BIGIP (LTM/GTM) Automated Backup

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.

 

 

As far as copying it off box, you could use ftp or scp executed in your daily config_archive script to copy it to a box that can accept ftp or scp. Something like:

 

 

echo ftp \/var\/tmp\/daily_archive.ucs user@{SOME IP ADDRESS} >> /etc/cron.daily/config_archive

 

 

Again using a date variable instead of the daily_archive.ucs name if you went that route (I don't recall the bash syntax off the top of my head).

 

 

But it seems like a lot of work to do that unless your configuration is really changing that much.

 

 

Denny