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williammyer1
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May 29, 2024

BigIP UCS Backup script; looking for some guidance on design

Greetings,   I've began to work on a bash script, intended to be ran locally on each F5 appliance via a cron task. The criteria for this script has been, Saves the UCS /w encryption using {Hostn...
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JRahm
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May 29, 2024

Hi williammyer1 . Nice work on your backup script! What you point out is true, however. You do need to adjust as you upgrade, and potentially manage device-specific data, so the opex for that is going to be higher. Ansible is a better approach for those reasons. You can use the bigip_ucs and bigip_ucs_fetch modules to create the ucs and download it to your ansible hub, then use/write an sftp module to move the files to their destination.