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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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Kevin_Davies_40
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Jan 23, 2014
!/bin/bash
host=`echo $HOSTNAME | awk -F. '{ print $1 }'`
date=`date +%Y%m%d`
/usr/bin/tmsh save /sys ucs backup_${host}_${date}.ucs
/usr/bin/find /var/local/ucs -name backup_${host}_\*.ucs -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

Save the above to a new file called /config/mybackup and add the following line to /config/startup.

[ ! -L /etc/cron.daily/mybackup ] && ln -s /config/mybackup /etc/cron.daily/mybackup

Now run the following commands to complete the configuration.

chmod +x /config/mybackup
ln -s /config/mybackup /etc/cron.daily/mybackup
Kevin_Davies_40's avatar
Kevin_Davies_40
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Jan 23, 2014
The mybackup script should carry over to an upgraded config and be stored in a UCS archive. If for any reason the symbolic link goes away the command in /config/startup will recreate it. The find will remove any backups older than thirty days. Just check the backup size as 30 of them may take up too much space.