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Anthony
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Sep 22, 2014

unable to backup config

Hi all, I have found a problem with one of my production F5 3600's. There is a cronjob which runs a nightly backup using the create_ucs process.

I noticed that a UCS file has not been created for some time now, and when I try and run a create_ucs manually I get errors which I'm assuming is whats happening with the cronjob too. 

bash-3.2 /usr/local/bin/create_ucs current.ucs
Saving active configuration...
md5sum: /var/ts/dms/policy/policy_versions/12/23.plc: Input/output error
Fatal: executing: md5sum /var/ts/dms/policy/policy_versions/12/23.plc
Operation aborted.
/tmp/configsync.spec: Error creating package

WARNING:There are error(s) during saving.
    Not everything was saved.
    Be very careful when using this saved file!

Error creating package
Error during config save.

Has anyone seen this issue before, or know what might be the cause?

Thanks in advance! Anthony

application delivery
LTM
management

3 Replies

  • Kevin_Stewart's avatar
    Kevin_Stewart
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    Sep 22, 2014

    Any chance that you have an error somewhere in your configuration? What happens when you do this?

    tmsh load sys config

    Do you get any errors?

  • Anthony's avatar
    Anthony
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    Sep 23, 2014

    Have just run this and no errors reported. We config sync the LTMs regularly, its purely the local backup which is reporting an error.