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CirrusVMWare Backups of active VEs?
EmployeeFrom experience using vsphere for lots of lab BIG-IPs, DB (MCP and REST both) problems do sometimes happen when you snapshot and do hard shutdowns. And the fact that the running-config isn't necessarily the same as the saved-config.
I'd expect that you could issue a "tmsh save sys config" to align the running-config and saved-config, then "bigstart stop" to quiesce the system and it'd be OK to move/snapshot. At that point, there shouldn't be any consequential open files. To recover you'd of course need to reboot or "bigstart start" the system.
CirrusThanks for the response. F5 support confirmed that UCS backups are still the only recommended backup procedure to avoid service disruption. It is rare we need to restore VEs, and we will continue collecting UCS archives nightly.
