I started a project for configuration backup of F5 devices. I though I would share it here. Project Page - https://sourceforge.net/projects/f5configbackup/ Packet Pusher Blog post - http://packetpushers.net/config-backups-f5/

Looks excellent, shout if you want any help or input

Any feedback I could get would help me make it better.

Excellent idea. I'm going to make some tests on it. If you need anything from us, shout your thought here ;)

Just set this up - I thought that the reboot question at the end of config could be better. It asks if you want to reboot without prompting for the correct answers. What I normally do it use something like: echo -e "Do you want to reboot? n/[y]:" and if they don't input n then reboot. ie echo -e "Do you want to reboot? n/[y]:" read yesno if [ x$yesno -ne xy ] then reboot fi Hope that makes some sense

Configuration Backups for F5

14 Replies

PeteWhite
Employee
Feb 24, 2014
Looks excellent, shout if you want any help or input
Eric_Flores_131
Cirrostratus
Feb 24, 2014
Any feedback I could get would help me make it better.
Thomas_Gobet
Nimbostratus
Feb 26, 2014
Excellent idea. I'm going to make some tests on it. If you need anything from us, shout your thought here ;)
boneyard
MVP
Mar 04, 2014
will check this out.
PeteWhite
Employee
Jul 08, 2014
Just set this up - I thought that the reboot question at the end of config could be better. It asks if you want to reboot without prompting for the correct answers. What I normally do it use something like: echo -e "Do you want to reboot? n/[y]:" and if they don't input n then reboot. ie echo -e "Do you want to reboot? n/[y]:" read yesno if [ x$yesno -ne xy ] then reboot fi Hope that makes some sense
Amanpreet_Singh
Cirrostratus
Oct 19, 2015
Hi, Did you worked on its internal Cron tab to schedule the backup job?
- Eric_Flores_131
  Cirrostratus
  Dec 03, 2015
  The backup job is a Python daemon. It's pretty much just a "while" loop that does a DB lookup every 10 seconds to see if it is time to back up. See f5backup.py line 101.
- AShafer33_20640
  Nimbostratus
  Feb 06, 2017
  Hi Eric, We have used this utility for a few years and it has been great for us. Thank you for putting it together. Currently we are receiving an error in the backup log only occurring on our publisher. I was wondering if you could provide some insight on why we are receving it. The other HA device is backing up without issue. Thanks for any info!
  
  Connecting to ****** at 04:01:05. CID times do not match. Old - 1486271651, New - 1486358048. Downloading backup file at 04:02:33. Downloaded UCS file for HQ-F5LTM-01 - 269884736 bytes. Device is not standalone or active unit. Skipping cert info download at 04:10:49.
  
  Connecting to ***** at 04:10:49. CID times do not match. Old - 1483766067, New - 1486358113. Downloading backup file at 04:12:28. Error: URLError:
Allanwynn_16283
Nimbostratus
Nov 28, 2015
Hi Sir, will this work on F5 version 11.6 and later?
- Eric_Flores_131
  Cirrostratus
  Dec 03, 2015
  It should. I dont think the iControl SOAP API calls it uses have changed since 11.3, which was the code version I was using when I was a customer. Once you get the appliance, do a sudo yum -y update on the CLI and reboot to make sure you have the latest Linux security patches.
- Allanwynn_16283
  Nimbostratus
  Dec 04, 2015
  Hi, I will test this thank you!
Allanwynn_16283
Nimbostratus
Nov 28, 2015
Hi Sir, will this work on F5 version 11.6 and later?
mplaksin_293271
Nimbostratus
Dec 14, 2017
Its updated?
Chirag_Chourasi
Nimbostratus
Mar 07, 2018
Hi Eric,

I am having a hard time in finding hte VM utility. Is it still available some where?

Thanks