F5 Automated Backups - The Right Way

I realize that this may be old school and not as nifty, but what I do with ours is to set up a remote nfs mount point in the /etc/fstab as you would with most any *nix OS's, set it to noauto so if the system can't reach it on a reboot it won't hang, have a scrpt that is run via crontab that mounts the partition, the scf / ucs, the umount the partition. I mean they are Linux after all and have almost all of the functions of a regular *nix host.