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Senthil_7991's avatar
Senthil_7991
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Jan 02, 2018

Schedule Auto Backup of LTM UCS

Hi Team,   We would like to schedule auto backup of our LTM UCS file to local computer, please let us know to how to do?   Running Version BIG-IP 11.6.1 Build 1.0.326 Hotfix HF1  
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Samir_Jha_52506's avatar
Samir_Jha_52506
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Jan 03, 2018

There are many ways to take F5 backup regularly or based on time frame. Either go via some script(bash, perl,etc) or existing iAPP setup. Its up to your choice how you gonna to make it.

Option1: Bash Script

Its via SFTP and key authentication. You need to first create a 

dsa key
to use for authentication to your SCP/SFTP server. Then put the script in a file named /config/backup and create a chron job using this, 
chmod +x /config/backup; ln -s /config/backup /etc/cron.daily/backup

!/bin/bash

 Set variables for UCS file name 
dt=`date +%Y%m%d`
hostname=`uname -n |cut -d. -f1`
DDIR=/var/tmp
SFTPhost=

 Delete old ucs file created by this script 
rm $DDIR/$hostname*.ucs
cd /config
tmsh save /sys config
 Create configuraiton archive 
tmsh save /sys ucs $DDIR/$hostname-$dt.ucs
 Send to admin server via SFTP 
cd $DDIR
sftp -oIdentityFile=/config/sftp_dsa $hostname@$SFTPhost<< EOF
cd $hostname
put $hostname-$dt.ucs
quit
EOF

Option 2(via iApp) Please go through below link

Senthil_7991's avatar
Senthil_7991
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Jan 09, 2018

Hi Team, I would know where should put my username/ password details for SFTP, Please explain some more clearly.

I created this below script and put inside but having issue

!/bin/bash

$DATE=

date +%Y%m%d
hostname=
uname -n |cut -d. -f1

Here we create the ucs archive

tmsh save sys ucs $DATE

Here we do the same with ftp

ftp -n xx.xx.xx.xx

user xxxxxx "xxxxx" binary cd \Users\xxxxx\Desktop\Newfolder put "$DATE.ucs" bye End-Of-Session

Getting this below error

++ date +%Y%m%d + =20180109 f5backup.sh: line 2: =20180109: command not found ++ uname -n ++ cut -d. -f1 + hostname=XXXXXXXXXX + tmsh save sys ucs Syntax Error: enter ucs identifier + ftp -n XXXXXXX

^C+ user XXXXXX XXXXXX f5backup.sh: line 11: user: command not found + binary f5backup.sh: line 12: binary: command not found + cd UsersxxxxxxxDesktopNewfolder f5backup.sh: line 13: cd: UsersxxxxxxxxDesktopNewfolder: No such file or directory + put .ucs f5backup.sh: line 14: put: command not found + bye f5backup.sh: line 15: bye: command not found + End-Of-Session f5backup.sh: line 16: End-Of-Session: command not found