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Techgeeeg_28888
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Mar 03, 2012

snapshot facility on LTM

Hi everyone,   Many of you must have used F5 Firepass, there was a facility of taking a system snapshoot in Firepass. This facility was really helpful in case if the system upgradation fails or if ...
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hooleylist
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Mar 06, 2012
From 9.4.2 - 9.4.8 LTM had the snapshot utility which basically created an image of the OS and config for a single slot. I'm not sure why, but it was removed from the product in 10.0:

 

 

sol10217: BIG-IP version 10.x does not contain the snapshot utility

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/10000/200/sol10217.html

 

 

You could make a request for enhancement with F5 Support, but I think you'll just get the recommendation to use a second slot and a UCS file or the cpcfg utility.

 

 

Aaron