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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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Has anyone got this to work 100% properly? I am not able to restore from FTP. I have no problem with making a job FTP the UCS file (without passphrase) to a FTP server. But when I download it back to the F5, and try to restore it from the file, it fails with: Saving active configuration... Current configuration backed up to /var/local/ucs/cs_backup.ucs. tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Child returned status 1 tar: SPEC-Files: Not found in archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Fatal: executing: tar -zxf /var/local/ucs/20140919_backup_test.com.ucs SPEC-Manifest SPEC-Files Operation aborted. /var/tmp/configsync.spec: Error installing package Config install aborted. Unexpected Error: UCS loading process failed. I am not sure what this mean, but I have notices that the version is “unknown” when opening the backup file on the F5. Furthermore, if I set the job to save on F5 instead of FTP, I can restore it without problem, and the version is now shown right version. Please advice. P.S. This is testet in both version 2.0, 2.0.1-tdd and 2.0.2-tdd

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