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michal_liska_61
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Apr 13, 2010

Configuration backup not working

Hello,     We have a problem with configuration backup. When we run "bigpipe config save ", we get the following error:   Saving active configuration...   md5sum: /config/: Is a directory ...
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hoolio
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Apr 13, 2010
Nice work in figuring this out guys. For files or directories that have meta-characters in the name, you can generally delete them using a backslash to escape the name:

 

 

echo test > \\

 

 

ls -la |head

 

total 247900

 

drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 4096 Apr 13 19:38 ./

 

drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Mar 31 08:11 ../

 

-rwS--S--T 1 root webusers 0 Feb 4 10:12 .qkview_lock

 

drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Jan 11 18:50 578CGPw79T/

 

-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 22878 Mar 31 08:09 LICENSE.F5

 

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7607 Feb 11 12:09 LocalTrafficMap.pl*

 

-rwx------ 1 root webusers 1211 Mar 31 11:07 README.txt*

 

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 11 19:06 WebAppTrace/

 

-rw-r--r-- 1 root webusers 5 Apr 13 19:38 \

 

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136695 Nov 30 17:45 bigip.conf_v10.1.0

 

 

file \\

 

\: ASCII text

 

 

cat \\

 

test

 

 

rm \\

 

 

ll \\

 

ls: \: No such file or directory

 

 

Aaron