F5 Auto backup script for SCP for V10 and 11.

You're very welcome.

Thank you very much!!!! Much much appreciated!

The script just saves the files locally I'm afraid.

Storing a username and password in this file would not be a good idea. You'd want to set-up key-based authentication as explained here: https://blogs.oracle.com/jkini/entry/how_to_scp_scp_and.

Then it would be as simple as adding something like this before the end of the script;

scp "${UCS_FILENAME}.ucs" username@hostname:/dir/location/ 
scp "${UCS_FILENAME}.scf" username@hostname:/dir/location/

Thanks a ton! However where shall I define SCP credentials?

Trying again, slightly modified and some formatting errors corrected;

Login to the device using the admin account, then move to the admin home directory and create a file using vi:

cd /home/admin
vi bigipbackup.sh

Paste the following into the console:

!/bin/bash
/admin/home/bigipbackup.sh

UCS Files will be saved to /var/local/ucs/
SCF Files will be saved to /var/local/scf/

Create current date/time stamp variable
DATETIME="`date +%Y_%m_%d`"
Note the correct ` character must be used above,
this can be found near the top left of most keyboards
just under the [ESCAPE] key. 

Uncomment the following line for troubleshooting
echo $DATETIME

Create filename variable
UCS_FILENAME="${DATETIME}_$HOSTNAME"

Uncomment the following line for troubleshooting
echo $UCS_FILENAME

Create a UCS archive with the filename specified above
The file extension will be .ucs – will be available in the GUI
tmsh save sys ucs "${UCS_FILENAME}"

Also create an SCF file with the same filename
The file extension will be .scf – won’t be available in the GUI
tmsh save sys config file "${UCS_FILENAME}.scf"

If you don’t delete these files /var will become full fairly quickly
Change the +31 value (31 days) to whatever suits you
find /var/local/ucs/ –mtime +31 -delete
EOF

Save the file and exit vi;

:w:q

Then make it executable:

chmod 711 bigipbackup.sh

Then modify the admin user’s cron table as necessary based on your needs (paste in the relevant line, not all of them);

crontab –e

@daily /home/admin/bigipbackup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 Every day
@weekly /home/admin/bigipbackup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 Every week
@monthly /home/admin/bigipbackup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 Every month

There's also an iApp from Jason Rahm, here: https://devcentral.f5.com/tech-tips/articles/scheduling-big-ip-configuration-backups-via-the-gui-with-an-iapp.

Here's what I use but unfortunately no off box SCP, shouldn't be too hard to add;

Login to the device using the admin account, then:

cd /home/admin
vi bigipbackup.sh

Paste the following into the console:

!/bin/bash
/admin/home/bigipbackup.sh

UCS Files will be saved to /var/local/ucs/
SCF Files will be saved to /var/local/scf/

Create current date/time stamp variable
DATETIME="`date +%Y_%m_%d`"
Note the correct ` character must be used above,
this can be found near the top left of most keyboards
just under the [ESCAPE] key. 

Uncomment the following line for troubleshooting
echo $DATETIME

Create filename variable
UCS_FILENAME="${DATETIME}_$HOSTNAME"

Uncomment the following line for troubleshooting
echo $UCS_FILENAME

Create a UCS archive with the filename specified above
The file extension will be .ucs – will be available in the GUI
tmsh save sys ucs "${UCS_FILENAME}"

Also create an SCF file with the same filename
The file extension will be .scf – won’t be available in the GUI
tmsh save sys config file "${UCS_FILENAME}.scf"

If you don’t delete these files /var will become full fairly quickly
Change the +31 value (31 days) to whatever suits you
find /var/local/ucs/ –mtime +31 -delete
EOF

Save the file and then make it executable:
chmod 711 bigipbackup.sh

Then modify the admin user’s cron table as necessary based on your needs (paste in the relevant line, not all of them);

crontab –e

@daily /home/admin/bigipbackup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 Every day
@weekly /home/admin/bigipbackup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 Every week
@monthly /home/admin/bigipbackup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 Every month

Actually I just need to have a solution where I can automate the backup on a regular frequency to an SCP server.

Btw, thanks for sharing F5-Config-Backupv3.

You might find this useful if you can spare a VM and want to keep things GUI based: http://packetpushers.net/f5-config-backups-3/

Dear Bhattman,

Thank you for your update. I have tried to use this script, however got multiple syntax errors while executing. Is there a way where I can have a tested script where I can replace IP address and other relevant information respect to SCP server? Sorry but I don't understand code :(

Hi Swo0sh,

Here is the following script: Click Here

You can store the script in /etc/cron.daily or cron.hourly or cron.monthly and make sure it's an executable.

I hope this helps

-=Bhattman=-