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Hi Guy's,

I am following the guide https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K13418  to create and automatically transfer my UCS file to our remote backup.

It creates the backup but I cannot transfer it via SFTP or SCP.

I get the following when I attempt to SCP to our Windows backup server:

[root@REDACTED] ucs # scp -p REDACTED test@REDACTED:E:\\REDACTED password:

Connection to RE.DAC.TED.X closed by remote host.

lost connection

I just cant get this to work, I read that I haven't done the SSH key's part because I can use the password but it won't transfer the files.

Would really appreciate the help, I am not sure how I can find or open logs to see what the issue is.

My linux skills are weak.

(ed. REDACTED private details)

Hi Guy's,

I am following the guide https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K13418  to create and automatically transfer my UCS file to our remote backup.

It creates the backup but I cannot transfer it via SFTP or SCP.

I get the following when I attempt to SCP to our Windows backup server:

[root@REDACTED] ucs # scp -p REDACTED test@REDACTED:E:\\REDACTED password:

Connection to RE.DAC.TED.X closed by remote host.

lost connection

I just cant get this to work, I read that I haven't done the SSH key's part because I can use the password but it won't transfer the files.

Would really appreciate the help, I am not sure how I can find or open logs to see what the issue is.

My linux skills are weak.

(ed. REDACTED private details)

So by the looks of it you are unable to login with a username and password on your SCP server.

I think icall is a better way to perform backups.

Have a look at this article: https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/f5-backup-procedure-over-scp-using-icall-1200

Cheers,

Kees

you can try to use /bin/expect to execute scenario of interactive shell.
then put the expect execution in icall, crontab or other scheduler.

# cat /var/tmp/script.exp\nset timeout -1\nspawn $env(SHELL)\nmatch_max 100000\nexpect \"#\"\nsend -- \"scp /var/tmp/ggg.txt myusername@myserver.com:/target/path\\n\"\nexpect \"Password:\"\nsend -- \"mypassword\\n\"\nexpect \"# \"\nsend -- \"exit\\n\"\n#\n#/bin/expect -f /var/tmp/script.exp\n...

you can create recording of other interactive shell flow file using \"/bin/autoexpect -p\"

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