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Jeff_Silverman_
Aug 23, 2007Historic F5 Account
There is more than one way to do it. I am paranoid about configuration changes and the need to revert to a known good configuration. So I have set up a server so that I can ssh into the server from the BigIP without using a password. This is as safe as the root account on the BigIP is safe.
Then I have a cron job that fires once a day which generates a backup and then copies the resulting file to the server.
!/bin/bash
backup the configuration
b config save /config.ucs
Copy the configuration to the server
scp /config.ucs USERNAME@SERVER:/PATH/`hostname`-`date +%Y%m%d%H%m%S`.ucs
The `hostname` and `date +%Y%m%d%H%m%S` are some UNIXisms which creates a file with the hostname and a timestamp in the filename. The format of the time stamp makes it easy to sort lexigraphically.
Note that it is not enough to rely on the partner of a pair to save the configuration because there are configuration items which are common and some configuration items which are specific.
Jeff Silverman
j.silverman@f5.com