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Third Time's the Charm: BIG-IP Backups Simplified with iCall

Backing up the BIG-IP Configuration is something I've written about a couple times (here and here) previously. Well, third time's the charm, thanks to the new iCall feature in the 11.4 release. This ...
Published Jun 26, 2013
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Mar 14, 2014
Hi Jason,

 

 

just playing around with your backup script. The FTP upload could also be done with curl like 'exec curl -T /var/tmp/$fname.tar.gz -u $ftpuser:$ftppass ftp://$ftp' ..

 

 

But we've another problem. Could you explain the argument function of the periodic icall handler and how to get these values in the icall script. I've found the tcpdump event script where also name/value pairs are used, but in a periodic handler it seems to work in another way. could you help us?

 

 

thanks,

 

chris