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Wes_98712
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Feb 09, 2007

iControl for Backup/Restore

Without using the enterprise management appliance does the iControl API support remote backup requests of an F5 ucs?     I created a couple of scripts that basically backs up the current configs...
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Joe_Pruitt
Feb 09, 2007
You can absolutely use iControl to configure archiving of configurations. Here's what you should do.

 

 

1. Use System::ConfigSync::save_configuration() to create the ucs file.

 

2. Use System::ConfigSync::download_configuration() to download the created ucs file to disk.

 

 

In fact, the SDK has a sample perl script that does all of this for you. Check out the sdk_root/sdk/samples/soap/perl/soaplite/System/ConfigSync.pl sample and you should be all set!

 

 

In fact, this app also covers uploading and installing ucs files that you've previously backed up...

 

 

Good luck and let us know if anything else comes up...

 

 

-Joe