Warm Spare Configuration?

Dev,

I have an issue I'm trying to work through. I've been tasked with getting the two F5's here as mirror's of each other, without doing an HA group. I've followed the docs on the site to do this for an RMA'd box. I can get the process done through command line, using tmsh load sys ucs xxxxx.ucs no-license. This process seems to work just fine. The issue is the amount of time it takes for this to happen. It seems to be taking a long time ~ 30 mins or so to fully restore the box to mirror the other one. That just seems kind of ridiculous to me. I'm also using the backup script that I found on the site that backs up the configs to a UCS and sends it to another device. Is that UCS encrypted by default when done by the command line? I know the GUI has the option to encrypt, but couldn't find any info on encrypting through the CLI. All help is greatly appreciated.

Update: I finally got this working. Turns out I was missing a full power off at the end of the restore. The process works as follows: Download the .UCS from my backup server, put it on a flash drive, mount that to the F5, upload the .UCS into /var/ucs. run the tmsh load sys ucs xxxxxxx.ucs no-license. This restores the config and puts the F5 in an inoperative state. After a reboot, the F5 will stay in inoperative mode until it is hard power cycled. All is well after that!