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eroach5
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May 22, 2018

Restore mutiple partitions. 33 to be exact.

Hello,

 

I have a RMA/new F5 4200v that I need to restore from a F5 that is beginning to fail.

 

I have restored many F5's in the past, however, they only had one partition. The unit to be restored has 33 partitions / 33 route domains. I have downloaded the /config/partitions to my pc.

 

Being in uncharted waters here I would like to see if anyone has performed such a restore.

 

The F5 is a standalone unit, so the goal is to build / restore the new F5 to replace the failing F5.

 

The software version is 11.6.3.1.

 

Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

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  • Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
    Stanislas_Piro2
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    May 22, 2018

    Do you have an UCS file to restore?

    If Yes, use following command:

    tmsh load sys ucs yourfile.ucs no-license
  • youssef1's avatar
    youssef1
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    May 22, 2018

    Hello,

     

    Just be carefull to this point:

     

    If you are restoring a backup that contains encrypted passphrases after reinstalling the operating system, replacing a failed system with a new system, or otherwise moving an existing configuration to a new system, the encrypted passphrases for objects used in the configuration cannot be decrypted. An error message displays that appears similar to the following example:

     

    0107102b:3: Master Key decrypt failure - decrypt failure - final

     

    For restoring it's not complicated:

     

    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13132restoretmsh

     

    Upload Archive trough GUI then enter the following command:

     

    tmsh load sys ucs [ucs file name] no-license

     

    Just for information, if you had changed equipment you should have done:

     

    tmsh load sys ucs [ucs file name] no-license no-platform-check

     

    to answer your question it does not matter what you are doing, you have nothing special to do ...

     

    Regards