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RAQS
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Aug 27, 2021

F5 Backup

Hi All,   Hope you all are doing fine.   Can you please help me with below requirement :-   I have to take backup of F5, these F5 boxes are having multiple partition, so if i will take ba...
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    Mike757
    Aug 27, 2021

    Hi RAQS,

     

    Open it with 7-zip, or a compatible application, I guess. I use 7-zip and it works perfectly.

     

    Mike

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Hi RAQS,

 

Yes, a UCS backup includes almost everything, partitions as well. See https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13132 for details.

 

Mike

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Aug 27, 2021
Hi Mike, Thanks for your help. So need to go to each partition and take backup instead of that i can take backup in common partition and it will include information of all partitions ? Regards, RAQS
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    Aug 27, 2021

    No, no need. If in doubt, download the file and open it on your computer, although the extension is ucs, it's actually a tar.gz. You'll see it includes everything inside /config, including non-default partition folders and files.

     

    Mike

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    RAQS
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    Aug 27, 2021
    Thanks Mike. So how i will read it in PC ? If i open it with notepad or wordpad it shows me encrypted stuff. But while taking backup I didn’t opted for encryption. Or, do I need unix machine to read it ? Regards, RAQS