# AUTOMATE UCS BACKUP

**URL:** <https://community.f5.com/t/automate-ucs-backup/61124>\
**Category:** Technical Forums\
**Tags:** asm-advanced-waf, security, application-delivery, ltm\
**Created:** [December 15, 2019, 7:41am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/automate-ucs-backup/61124 "2019-12-15T07:41:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Mubi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Mubi](https://community.f5.com/u/Mubi)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 7:41am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/automate-ucs-backup/61124/1 "2019-12-15T07:41:54Z")

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Want to Schedule Bakup for all of my 8 F5 Loadbalancers installed at Customers Datacenter. 4000s,5800 and i7800 on SolarWind .

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**Author:** ![careline](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@careline](https://community.f5.com/u/careline)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/automate-ucs-backup/61124/2 "2019-12-15T09:32:30Z")

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1、with perl or python script to get f5-config.ucs ;

2、with crond task in f5 it self;

3、solarwind may not work well

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**Author:** ![M\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@M\_2](https://community.f5.com/u/M_2)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/automate-ucs-backup/61124/3 "2019-12-16T10:27:23Z")

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\> If you want a local UCS copy , you can schedule a cron job to grigger the back and rotate it.

\> if you want to store it remotely you can generate ssh-keys with remote server and run series of commands to generate UCS and scp to the remote server once the UCS is generated.

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**Author:** ![Mubi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Mubi](https://community.f5.com/u/Mubi)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 10:49am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/automate-ucs-backup/61124/4 "2019-12-16T10:49:32Z")

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Hi Marcus

If we want to go with second Option as you suggested how we can achieve it, do you have any sucessful example.

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**Author:** ![Mubi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Mubi](https://community.f5.com/u/Mubi)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 10:49am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/automate-ucs-backup/61124/5 "2019-12-16T10:49:33Z")

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Hi Marcus

If we want to go with second Option as you suggested how we can achieve it, do you have any sucessful example.

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**Author:** ![Mubi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Mubi](https://community.f5.com/u/Mubi)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 10:50am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/automate-ucs-backup/61124/6 "2019-12-16T10:50:36Z")

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dear careline,

what about second option ''crond task ‘’