VMWare Backups of active VEs?

Reply from F5 Support:

Thank you for reaching out to F5 Support. My name is Manisha from NA region and will be assisting you with the service request. Please let me know if these hours align with your needs. If not, we can reassign the case to a desired region.

1. Yes, as stated it the article F5 does not support the Snapshot process being used on a BIG-IP.

Recommended Actions

Creating and archiving backups should be done regularly and prior to any upgrade. The only supported method is to do so via an F5 UCS Archive.

2. Regarding your 2nd query --> there is a script that resides on the system as a cron job, that does automatic backups and even transfers these backups to a remote server, if properly set up. Please see below articles for automated UCS backups on BIG-IP :

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K13418 ---> Archiving UCS files using the logrotate and crontab utilities (11.x - 17.x)
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K78344940 ---> Schedule automated UCS backups on the BIG-IP system

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Kind Regards,
Manisha Kota | Service Provider Engineer