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cd's avatar
cd
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Jan 15, 2018

F5 /shared volume getting full

Hello,   One of our F5 /shared volume is getting abnormally full. In the top 10 files, we get a few files like this:   1068288000 /shared/tmp/im8067/configsync-2.0-1-Linux-2.6.32431.56.1.6.5.8...
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JoshBecigneul
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Jan 17, 2018

Hello SRT Admin,

One way we deal with this is to trigger the backup worker over the REST API, which is located at the 

/mgmt/tm/shared/sys/backup
endpoint.

If you POST to 

/mgmt/tm/shared/sys/backup
with a JSON payload of 
{'file':,'action':'BACKUP'}
, replacing
with the name of your archive file, you should see a HTTP 202 response if the job was created successfully which will include some details about the job.

You can run a GET query for a running task using the 

id
that was returned at the same endpoint: 
/mgmt/tm/shared/sys/backup/
and check the status of the job.

Once completed you could retrieve it using SCP if needed.

Thanks.

Josh