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Archiving BIG-IP Configurations with an iApp in v11.2

I wrote an article last year on utilizing iApps to put a front-end on a common system task, BIG-IP configuration archiving. This worked well for that initial v11 release, but something changed along ...
Published Sep 25, 2012
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Jul 09, 2014
Hi annielee, Add this to the iApp to compress the .ucs "exec tar cvzf /.tar.gz -C /.ucs 2> /dev/null"