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Afroz_Ahmad_114
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Apr 01, 2014

F5 Ltm Backup Script

Hello Experts,

Reference:- https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/AdvDesignConfig.LTM_Backup_Shell_Script.ashx I have taken reference from above URL and modified and have used below script to take backup of F5 , however the backup is not working/coming to FTP. I am not much of a script guy , so can anyone suggest me, what i am doing wrong in here. Also i want to know at which time this script will execute. Much appreciated.

!/bin/sh -x Name: backup_cron_scriptv10.sh BIG-IP Backup Script This script automates LTM v10 Backups and saves the files with hostname and date off to an FTP server version 1.0 Author: Bhattman Original Date: 01/07/10 Backup your config in ucs

b config save /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup export a=

date +"%y%m%d"
export aa=$HOSTNAME.$a.ucs export b=/var/tmp/$aa mv /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup.ucs $b

Backup the SSL Certs

tar -cf /var/tmp/certs.tar /config/ssl export ff=$HOSTNAME.$a.certs.tar export f=/var/tmp/$ff mv /var/tmp/certs.tar $f

copy your crontab information - it can be other files as well

export c=$HOSTNAME.$a.crontab export cc=/var/tmp/$c cp /etc/crontab $cc

export MName=<192.168.1.100/F5> export Log=/var/tmp/log.bigip

ftp username and password

export UserName=admin export UserPassword=admin

export Machine1f2=$aa export Machine1f3=$c export Machine1f4=$ff

ftp command that sends the files over to ftp server

ftp -nvd ${MName} <<-END 1>&2 > ${Log} user ${UserName} ${UserPassword} bin put ${b} ${Machine1f2} put ${cc} ${Machine1f3} put ${f} ${Machine1f4} quit END

removes the copied files after push

rm -f ${b} rm -f ${cc} rm -f ${f} RTN_CODE=$?

exit $RTN_CODE

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TMOS

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  • cjunior's avatar
    cjunior
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    Apr 01, 2014
    I understood your problem and your BIG-IP version is in 10.x correct? The problem may lie in "export MName". Can you post again the script in code format? To do this, each line needs to start with four blank spaces. See in "how to format". tks
  • Afroz_Ahmad_114's avatar
    Afroz_Ahmad_114
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    Apr 01, 2014
    Yes version is 10.x. I intentionally put "export MName <192.168.1.100/F5> because i wanted all my FTP related files to go under F5 folder only. However i have tried with "export MName <192.168.1.100> it didn't work either. Other steps that i did after creating script. Created a file called backup_cron_scriptv10.sh in /etc/cron.daily, and executed by chmod 775 "backup_cron_scriptv10.sh" Below is the script. b config save /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup export a=`date +"%y%m%d"` export aa=$HOSTNAME.$a.ucs export b=/var/tmp/$aa mv /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup.ucs $b tar -cf /var/tmp/certs.tar /config/ssl export ff=$HOSTNAME.$a.certs.tar export f=/var/tmp/$ff mv /var/tmp/certs.tar $f export c=$HOSTNAME.$a.crontab export cc=/var/tmp/$c cp /etc/crontab $cc export MName=<192.168.1.100/F5> export Log=/var/tmp/log.bigip export UserName=admin export UserPassword=admin export Machine1f2=$aa export Machine1f3=$c export Machine1f4=$ff ftp -nvd ${MName} <<-END 1>&2 > ${Log} user ${UserName} ${UserPassword} bin put ${b} ${Machine1f2} put ${cc} ${Machine1f3} put ${f} ${Machine1f4} quit END rm -f ${b} rm -f ${cc} rm -f ${f} RTN_CODE=$? exit $RTN_CODE
  • cjunior's avatar
    cjunior
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    Apr 01, 2014

    Hi, You can test this version now? at the moment I am unable. I added a field "MDir" to define your target directory. If that does not work let me fix that for you. Tks

    !/bin/sh -x

Name: backup_cron_scriptv10.sh


 BIG-IP Backup Script

 This script automates LTM v10 Backups and saves the files with hostname and date
 off to an FTP server
 version 1.0
 Author: Bhattman
 Original Date: 01/07/10

b config save /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup
export a=`date +"%y%m%d"`
export aa=$HOSTNAME.$a.ucs
export b=/var/tmp/$aa
mv /var/tmp/BIG-IP_backup.ucs $b

tar -cf /var/tmp/certs.tar /config/ssl 
export ff=$HOSTNAME.$a.certs.tar
export f=/var/tmp/$ff
mv /var/tmp/certs.tar $f

export c=$HOSTNAME.$a.crontab
export cc=/var/tmp/$c
cp /etc/crontab $cc

export MName=192.168.1.100
export MDir=/F5/
export Log=/var/tmp/log.bigip

export UserName=admin
export UserPassword=admin

export Machine1f2=$aa
export Machine1f3=$c
export Machine1f4=$ff

ftp -nvd ${MName} <<-END 1>&2 > ${Log}
user ${UserName} ${UserPassword}
bin
put ${b} ${MDir}${Machine1f2}
put ${cc} ${MDir}${Machine1f3}
put ${f} ${MDir}${Machine1f4}
quit
END

rm -f ${b}
rm -f ${cc}
rm -f ${f}
RTN_CODE=$?

exit $RTN_CODE
  • swo0sh_gt_13163's avatar
    swo0sh_gt_13163
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    Jul 20, 2014

    Dear all,

     

    How can I have the same script for SCP server instead FTP? A little urgent, if someone can look into this.

     

    Cheers!

     

  • Brad_Parker's avatar
    Brad_Parker
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    Oct 22, 2015

    This is how I've done it via SFTP and key authentication. You need to first create a dsa key to use for authentication to your SCP/SFTP server. Then put the script in a file named /config/backup and create a chron job using this, 

    chmod +x /config/backup; ln -s /config/backup /etc/cron.daily/backup

    !/bin/bash

 Set variables for UCS file name 

dt=`date +%Y%m%d`
hostname=`uname -n |cut -d. -f1`
DDIR=/var/tmp
SFTPhost=


 Delete old ucs file created by this script 

rm $DDIR/$hostname*.ucs


 Send syslog message to log servers 

logger -p local0.info -t BIGIP configuration backup started. 


 Commit configuration from memory to files 

cd /config
tmsh save /sys config


 Create configuraiton archive 

tmsh save /sys ucs $DDIR/$hostname-$dt.ucs


 Send to admin server via SFTP 

cd $DDIR
sftp -oIdentityFile=/config/sftp_dsa $hostname@$SFTPhost<< EOF
cd $hostname
put $hostname-$dt.ucs
quit
EOF


 Send syslog message to log servers 

logger -p local0.info -t BIGIP configuration backup completed.