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NimbostratusRestore mutiple partitions. 33 to be exact.
Hello,
I have a RMA/new F5 4200v that I need to restore from a F5 that is beginning to fail.
I have restored many F5's in the past, however, they only had one partition. The unit to be restored has 33 partitions / 33 route domains. I have downloaded the /config/partitions to my pc.
Being in uncharted waters here I would like to see if anyone has performed such a restore.
The F5 is a standalone unit, so the goal is to build / restore the new F5 to replace the failing F5.
The software version is 11.6.3.1.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Stanislas_Piro2Cumulonimbus
Do you have an UCS file to restore?
If Yes, use following command:
tmsh load sys ucs yourfile.ucs no-license
youssef1Hello,
Just be carefull to this point:
If you are restoring a backup that contains encrypted passphrases after reinstalling the operating system, replacing a failed system with a new system, or otherwise moving an existing configuration to a new system, the encrypted passphrases for objects used in the configuration cannot be decrypted. An error message displays that appears similar to the following example:
0107102b:3: Master Key decrypt failure - decrypt failure - final
For restoring it's not complicated:
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13132restoretmsh
Upload Archive trough GUI then enter the following command:
tmsh load sys ucs [ucs file name] no-license
Just for information, if you had changed equipment you should have done:
tmsh load sys ucs [ucs file name] no-license no-platform-check
to answer your question it does not matter what you are doing, you have nothing special to do ...
Regards