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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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Sep 12, 2017

here's a python script i wrote that will create a text backup or download a ucs. i use the text backup to submit to git in order to track changes, and the ucs backup run via cron once a day for a ucs backup. run the script and it will print usage for you.

https://github.com/nambrosch/misc-scripts/blob/master/f5backup.py

you'll need f5's bigsuds module v1.0.4 or newer.. it can be installed using 

sudo pip install bigsuds
or downloads here:

https://github.com/F5Networks/bigsuds

hope this helps!