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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 12, 2014
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Hello Thomas, I just found your script, it's pretty awesome from what I see here. I am having trouble setting up sftp from my F5 to a cifs share. Currently my backup files live under ./var/local/ucs and my cifs share is under \\servername\sharename$ I have a private public key already created.

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