SOAP File transfers for backup .ucs files result in unreadable files that are bigger than they should be

Hi,

Guessing you've got this working by now, but for anyone else who's interested I got Marc's script to work by simply decoding the file_data as base64. Updated version below is exactly the same except for a few lines....

    instantiate connection to bigip
obj = bigsuds.BIGIP(hostname=bigip_ip, username=bigip_user, password=bigip_pwd)

first save config file on bigip device
obj.System.ConfigSync.save_configuration(filename,'SAVE_FULL')

open target file for writing
f = open('/home/bigip_backups/' + filename + '.ucs','wb')  <---- This line

download data to file
while write_continue == 1:
    temp_config = obj.System.ConfigSync.download_configuration(filename + '.ucs',chunk_size,file_offset)
    file_info = temp_config['return']               
    f.write(base64.b64decode(file_info['file_data']))  <---- And this line

    detect EOF                                    
    if file_info['chain_type']  == 'FILE_LAST' or file_info['chain_type'] == 'FILE_FIRST_AND_LAST':
        write_continue = 0

    set offset                    
    file_offset = file_offset + chunk_size

    track download progress
    print str(file_offset) + " bytes written"

    DEBUG
    print file_info['chain_type']

cleanup
f.close()

Thanks Marc; your work saved me a lot of time!

Cheers, Stephen