Script to automate config backup on LTM 9.2

the GUI assumes the leading keyword "bigpipe". If you ssh in as root instead of the shell, you need b config save filename

Thank you for the quick response and helpful info.

 

 

Cheers.

Would you be willing to share the CRON job that you created? This is also something I'm looking to do, but don't know alot about scripting.

Here are some places to start:

 

AskF5 SOL8430 - Archive UCS files using logrotate and crontab utilities (Click here)

 

BIG-IP Backup Scripts (Click here)

 

LTM Backup Shell Script (Click here)

 

 

hth

 

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This is a script that I have been using for some time now. I placed it in /etc/cron.weekly and it creates a date stamped tarball of the .UCS file and FTPs it to a remote server. Been running it for well over 2 years. The only issue is when you upgrade you will have to put the script back in /etc/cron.weekly.

 

You will need to change the ftphost, user and password variables to reflect the FTP server you are connecting to as well as change the directory down below where the script has cd /F5/JAX1 to reflect the clients directory structure.

 

 

!/bin/bash

 

set the date variable

 

today=$(date +'%Y%m%d')

 

ftphost="ADD FTP IP HERE"

 

user="ADD FTP USERNAME HERE"

 

password="ADD FTP PASSWORD HERE"

 

run the F5 bigpipe config builder

 

cd /

 

bigpipe config save /config.ucs

 

Rename the config.ucs and append the date to the end

 

NUM=0

 

until [ "$NUM" -eq 5 ]

 

do

 

if [ -f /config.ucs ]

 

then mv config.ucs config-$today.ucs ; break

 

else sleep 5

 

fi

 

NUM=`expr "$NUM" + 1`

 

done

 

[[ ! -f /config-$today.ucs ]] && exit 1

 

Open the FTP connection and move the file

 

ftp -in < open $ftphost

 

user $user $password

 

bin

 

cd F5/JAX1

 

put config-$today.ucs

 

close

 

bye

 

EOF

 

Delete the backedup config file.

 

rm -rf config-$today.ucs

 

 

let me know if you have any questions

I put this out in the wiki. Thanks dwertz for contributing to the community!

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/AdvDesignConfig/BIG-IPBackupScriptInBash.html Click here