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soh13_111731
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Dec 17, 2007

GTM Backups to external server

I am new to this forum so please be gentle. I was wondering if anyone has a script that I could use/modify that would allow me to pull the ucs files off of the GTM servers and store on our external ut...
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hoolio
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Dec 17, 2007
You could use an iControl-based script to generate the UCS file and download it. There is an API for Perl. You can get some general info on iControl here: (Click here)

 

 

Else, you could use cron on the GTM to call a shell script which creates the UCS and then copies it off to a remote SSH/SCP server. I have a rough example I was working on a while back on another computer which does the latter. I'll dig around for it and post it later.

 

 

Anyone else have more polished solutions for this using shell or iControl scripts? I'd be curious to see what others are using.

 

 

Aaron