F5 Ltm Backup Script

This is how I've done it via SFTP and key authentication. You need to first create a dsa key to use for authentication to your SCP/SFTP server. Then put the script in a file named /config/backup and create a chron job using this,

chmod +x /config/backup; ln -s /config/backup /etc/cron.daily/backup

!/bin/bash

 Set variables for UCS file name 

dt=`date +%Y%m%d`
hostname=`uname -n |cut -d. -f1`
DDIR=/var/tmp
SFTPhost=


 Delete old ucs file created by this script 

rm $DDIR/$hostname*.ucs


 Send syslog message to log servers 

logger -p local0.info -t BIGIP configuration backup started. 


 Commit configuration from memory to files 

cd /config
tmsh save /sys config


 Create configuraiton archive 

tmsh save /sys ucs $DDIR/$hostname-$dt.ucs


 Send to admin server via SFTP 

cd $DDIR
sftp -oIdentityFile=/config/sftp_dsa $hostname@$SFTPhost<< EOF
cd $hostname
put $hostname-$dt.ucs
quit
EOF


 Send syslog message to log servers 

logger -p local0.info -t BIGIP configuration backup completed.