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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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@comunicaciones.datos, Unfortunately vCMP hosts cannot run iApps at all (as far as I know), so this cannot be adapted. If I have time I'll experiment to see if a vCMP host can run iCall scripts. If so, I might be able to devise a reasonable way to export a script to be imported to the vCMP host. Even if it is possible it would be a manual process to implement...which skirts around the entire premise. What I will say is that from my experience, things don't generally change much on vCMP hosts (not like they do on guests) so saving/storing a vCMP host's UCS Archive before and after each scheduled change is usually sufficient. Also, rebuilding a vCMP host from scratch is not nearly as onerous as rebuilding all the guests from scratch :)

 

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