BIGIP (LTM/GTM) Automated Backup

Simple answer = yes. Add /bin/bigpipe config save /path/to/backup.ucs to your system crontab daily/hourly/weekly/whatever.

leonkyneur,

 

 

Thanks for the instruction mate. i am not familiar with the command line on the BIGIP. Can you please give me more detail explanation. I already use WinSCP to manage files on the BIGIP to move and edit files

The bigip is linux under the hood, so a google search for system-related management will help you out next time.

 

 

This will create a file in /etc/cron.daily (daily backup) that will archive your configuration to /var/tmp/daily_archive.ucs.

 

 

echo \\!\/bin\/bash > /etc/cron.daily/config_archive

 

echo " " >> /etc/cron.daily/config_archive

 

echo \/bin\/bigpipe config save \/var\/tmp\/daily_archive.ucs >> /etc/cron.daily/config_archive

 

chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/config_archive

Like i said i am not linux expert but the command below do i execute on the BIGIP under the CLI to create a file in /etc/cron.daily (daily backup) that will archive ymy configuration to /var/tmp/daily_archive.ucs?

 

 

 

echo \\!\/bin\/bash > /etc/cron.daily/config_archive

 

echo " " >> /etc/cron.daily/config_archive

 

echo \/bin\/bigpipe config save \/var\/tmp\/daily_archive.ucs >> /etc/cron.daily/config_archive

 

chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/config_archive

Yes, you can just execute those lines in sequence on the CLI. Be aware though that this may not survive an upgrade of the unit.

 

 

Denny

good stuff. thanks all for your help....

ok. now i have a file called "config_archive" under /etc/con.daily and also under /var/tmp/ i have my daily backup file "daily_archive.ucs" . Now is it possible to name daily backup file (with date tag) under /var/tmp/ for each day instead of having just one daily_archive.ucs file? so each day i can have a backup file with the date and time.

 

 

Also i would like to pull the backup ucs file and back it up to a share on the network automatically.

I'm sure you could change the line in the config_archive to output something using a date variable instead of just "daily_archive.ucs" but you would eventually run into disk space problems if that wasn't cleaned up regularly. Is your BIG-IP configuration really changing daily? Most of the time it is sufficient to create and store an archive at the point each configuration change is made, which is easily done in the GUI after you have made your changes.

 

 

As far as copying it off box, you could use ftp or scp executed in your daily config_archive script to copy it to a box that can accept ftp or scp. Something like:

 

 

echo ftp \/var\/tmp\/daily_archive.ucs user@{SOME IP ADDRESS} >> /etc/cron.daily/config_archive

 

 

Again using a date variable instead of the daily_archive.ucs name if you went that route (I don't recall the bash syntax off the top of my head).

 

 

But it seems like a lot of work to do that unless your configuration is really changing that much.

 

 

Denny

Denny,

 

 

 

Thanks. Much appreciated.

 

 

Franco.

Denny,

 

 

sorry just one final question- where about does the bipip save the echo ftp command if i need to modify it?

 

 

cheers