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JG
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Mar 12, 2015

What exactly does "tmsh save sys config binary" do?

What exactly does "tmsh save sys config binary" do, apart from a possible "Help" text of "when run, it saves a binary version of the config"? :-)   I haven't been able to find any documentation ab...
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Mar 12, 2015

tmsh reference manual says it overwrites mcp binary file but i do see tmsh save sys config also changes mcp db file's timestamp. i do not see document about it too. hope somebody here has information.

save config binary
Saves all running configuration by overwriting the system binary
configuration database file.

Traffic Management Shell (tmsh) Reference Guide

https://support.f5.com/content/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-tmsh-11-4-0/_jcr_content/pdfAttach/download/file.res/bigip-tmsh-11-4-0.pdf 
[root@B4200-R76-S10:Active:Standalone] config  date; ls -l /var/db
Wed Mar 11 18:44:41 PDT 2015
total 9928
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10093528 Mar 11 18:44 mcpdb.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       36 Mar 11 18:44 mcpdb.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      298 Mar 10 02:35 mprov
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4407296 Mar 10 02:35 zxfrd.bin

[root@B4200-R76-S10:Active:Standalone] config  date; tmsh save sys config
Wed Mar 11 18:45:06 PDT 2015
Saving running configuration...
  /config/bigip.conf
  /config/bigip_base.conf
  /config/bigip_user.conf
[root@B4200-R76-S10:Active:Standalone] config  date; ls -l /var/db
Wed Mar 11 18:45:13 PDT 2015
total 9928
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10093528 Mar 11 18:45 mcpdb.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       36 Mar 11 18:45 mcpdb.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      298 Mar 10 02:35 mprov
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4407296 Mar 10 02:35 zxfrd.bin