F5 Auto backup script for SCP for V10 and 11.

Let us know how it goes

-=Bhattman=-

Sure, I will. However can I use the same script for V10? It doesn't seem to be working with version 10, as it contains tmsh commands, right?

Can you please share the same script for V10?

Cheers!

tmsh is supported in v10 so shouldn't be a problem.

If you think it is I'd suggest you enter each command manually at the CLI and see which one is the problem. The syntax may have changed slightly between versions perhaps? There are only two so this shouldn't take long. I don't have v10 to test against unfortunately.

NP!

thanks again. I will share my feedback. cheers!

NP!

thanks again. I will share my feedback. cheers!

Hi All!

Thank you very much guys for your help. I have successfully achieved the requirement!!!

I have managed to transfer backup to the SCP server. Following is the final version of the script which made it working.

!/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 21 -delete

scp "/var/local/ucs/${UCS_FILENAME}.ucs" f5-user@10.254.55.22:/home/f5-user/tmp/S1DZILB01/
EOF

Without defining the source and destination complete path, it was giving different errors. Many thanks for sharing the script, that really helped.

Cheers!

Wonderful. I am glad everything worked out

-=Bhattman=-

Soon I will share complete steps I have followed to achieve the Backup Automation. That might help someone.

Cheers!

Hi All!

I have prepared a raw document, which covers all the procedures need to configure on SCP/BigIP in order to achieve the objective.

As it is very raw, any help improving the doc, would help others to achieve their requirement.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/muasd5t8mu7wu4o/F5%20Backup%20procedure%20over%20SCP.docx

In case if you modify the doc, please upload it somewhere and share the link as well.

Thank you very much you all to achieve my objective. Much appreciated!

Cheers!

The link is down