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I'm pretty sure that this can't be done using the Web UI of the BIG-IP. If you don't mind using the SSH you could do this creating a cron job that will execute /usr/share/ts/bin/import_export_policy.pl script once a day.
The cron entry would probably look something like this:
0 23 * * * perl /usr/share/ts/bin/import_export_policy.pl -a export -f /var/asmbackup/policyName.bak -p 18 --format xml
-f is the location and the name of the file where the policy will be saved -p is the ID of the policy which to the best of my knowledge can be obtained by looking at the link of the policy edit page in Active Policies view
I understand that this is a bit messy, but it is the best I could figure out.
If you don't mind using an external system to perform this backup you could use iControl REST API for this. You could send a POST request to the /mgmt/tm/asm/tasks/export-policy endpoint with the following body:
{
"filename":"/var/exported_policy.xml",
"policyReference":" {
"link":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/asm/policies/policyId"
}
}
The .xml file will be saved to the BIG-IP file system in the /var/ts/var/rest directory. A script could be created that could be scheduled on cron on Windows Scheduler depending on your system which would execute this script once a day and possibly store these files on another system.
If you decide to go this way, I could help you out with the script.