F5 Automated Backups - The Right Way

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 devices. Based on the wo...
Published Mar 13, 2014
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Feb 10, 2015
I had issues targeting backups to an SMB file server in a Active Directory domain. So I modified this template to request allow users to specify the workgroup -- https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43115505/f5-iapps/f5.automated_backup/f5.automated_backup.v2.0.4-jc.zip. ** Warning: This does NOT work with Windows 2012 R2 file servers. The template will write a 0 KB .ucs files. My guess is this is due to the old version of smbclient 3.0.33 that is included in the BIG-IP software releases. It is up to F5 to update smbclient.