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SP_266134
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Jun 20, 2018

VE F5 13.1 Proper back up and restore procedure.

I have configured F5 VE 13.1 with LTM module as Active Standby mode. 1.I want to know what is the process to properly back up the whole system for preparing for a disaster recovery. 2.Only one conf...
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Hamish
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Jun 20, 2018

For a VE, the most comprehensive DR backup would be at the VMWare level. By taking a copy of the VM itself (OVA) and exporting it out, you're backing up everything. Your DR recovery therefore is simply re-importing the VMWare image. (Disk and Config). Effectively you're creating your very own 'appliance' complete with 'base config' (Being all your config). As an OVA it's 1 file (A tar of the ovf files) so easy to keep and copy around (Although may be quite large).

 

Everything else would require you to be able to re-create the VM guest before you can reinstall and be up & running again. e.g. if you rely on UCS then in DR you still have to create a new guest, install bigip and reload your config. That's downtime you may not be able to handle.