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Archiving BIG-IP Configurations with an iApp in v11.2

I wrote an article last year on utilizing iApps to put a front-end on a common system task, BIG-IP configuration archiving. This worked well for that initial v11 release, but something changed along ...
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Jun 17, 2013
hi Sean, it doesn't look like the backup shell script really supports multiple destinations, that variable would need to be interrogated and dropped through a loop, and I don't see that.

 

 

Now that 11.4 is out, there is a much simpler way to do config backups, all supported in tmsh, no cron or shell scripts required. Though if archiving off-box, you'll still need to do some ssh work on local and remote systems for key exchanges. Here's the iCall script and iApp:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iCall.Generate_Config_Backup.ashx