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Sanjay_Yadav_17
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Mar 17, 2015

I want to restore UCS Backup from 6500 series to 4000 series,Plz help

Hello Team,   Currently we had running F5 6500 series box and want to restore same ucs configuration on 4000 series box but while restoring error prompting and restoration failed, SO plz help me a...
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TJ_Vreugdenhil
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Mar 17, 2015

Hi Sanjay

 

1) When loading the UCS file are you using the "no platform-check" flag and "no-license"?

 

2) Do you have ASM provisioned on the 4000 series box?

 

3) You can try extracting the UCS file using 7-zip and take out the ASM portions of the config. (Once you edit a file, 7-zip will ask you if you would like to save and re-zip. When loading the UCS, make sure your ASM is un-provisioned.

 

4) You can take a UCS from your 6500 called 6500-ASM-turned-on.ucs, disable ASM provisioning on your 6500, Take another UCS called 6500-APM-turnedoff.ucs and restore the 6500 to 6500-ASM-turned-on.ucs

 

5) Contact F5 support if the above does not work or provide more details from the /var/log/liveinstall.log and /var/log/ltm

 

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Sanjay_Yadav_17
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Mar 17, 2015
Thanks TJ Vreugdenhil, 1) Yes I tried this command while restoring... 2)Yes, ASM provisioned enabled on 4000 box. 3)I will try this but I need ASM backup also to restore. 4)I cannot modify anything on 6500 box becoz its live and very critical services running. Plz... guide if you have any other way to restore...6500 box config to 4000 box... Thanks.. Sanjay