Complete F5 Automated Backup Solution

Problem this snippet solves: Hi all, Often I've been scouring the devcentral fora and codeshares to find that one piece of handywork that will drastically simplify my automated backup needs on F5 ...
Updated Jun 06, 2023
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Jan 06, 2017

I ran into the same issue as Nathaneil0227.

In my case it was because we were using DSA keys instead of RSA keys. So the cleaning of the keyfile portion didn't work correctly.

So i changed the line:

set cleaned_privatekey [exec echo "$::destination_parameters__scp_sshprivatekey" | sed -e "s/BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY/BEGIN;RSA;PRIVATE;KEY/g" -e "s/END RSA PRIVATE KEY/END;RSA;PRIVATE;KEY/g" -e "s/ /\\\n/g" -e "s/;/ /g"]

to:

set cleaned_privatekey [exec echo "$::destination_parameters__scp_sshprivatekey" | sed -e "s/BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY/BEGIN;RSA;PRIVATE;KEY/g" -e "s/END RSA PRIVATE KEY/END;RSA;PRIVATE;KEY/g" -e "s/BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY/BEGIN;DSA;PRIVATE;KEY/g" -e "s/END DSA PRIVATE KEY/END;DSA;PRIVATE;KEY/g" -e "s/ /\\\n/g" -e "s/;/ /g"]

I also made another tweak to allow you to set the remote folder to be the hostname of the device by entering $hostname for the path.