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eroach5
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May 22, 2018

Restore 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 res...
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youssef1
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May 22, 2018

Hello,

 

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