HA pair UCS backups - file sizes very different from each other

UCS files are a backup of the local appliance, and as such they contain data that have not been syncronized across a device group and data that are not part of the sync operation.

For example, you might have packet captures on one appliance, or ISO files, or maybe a user might have scripts saved in his home directory. None of this will be syncronized to the other appliance.

Text configuration files are in /config/ and /config/partitions/<p.name>/ folders , you can easily unzip them and check their sizes/content to confirm nothing's missing. (Of course, bigip_base.conf files are local-only)

If you have physical access to the appliance you can also run ls -al /config to find out what file sizes are.

The way I'd check is like this,

• Generate a ucs and save it on /var/tmp/
• Create a folder in /var/tmp/test/
• Move the ucs from /var/tmp/ to /var/tmp/test/
• Untar the UCS file in the /var/tmp/test by running below command
  • tar -xvf <ucs-file-name>.ucs
• Run find command inside the /var/tmp/test to see which file is consuming the highest space.
  • find /var/tmp/test -xdev -type f -exec du {} \; | sort -rn | head -20

This is will tell you the top consuming file.