Manual Chapter :
Back up a device's current configuration
Applies To:
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BIG-IQ Centralized Management
- 8.4.0
Back up a device's current configuration
You must be logged into BIG-IQ as a an
administrator or have user access with backup download permission.
Creating a backup (in the form of a UCS file) for
all devices in your network (including the BIG-IQ system itself) allows you to easily
restore a configuration if a system becomes unstable. It's a good idea to create a
system backup on a regular basis and immediately before you perform a software upgrade
or make significant configuration changes.
- At the top of the screen, clickConfiguration.
- On the left, clickBIG-IP DEVICES.
- Select the check box next to each device you want to create a backup for, click theMorebutton and selectBack Up Now.
- Click theMorebutton and selectBack Up Now
- Type a name to identify this backup, and an optional description for it.
- If you want to include the SSL private keys in the backup file, select theInclude Private Keyscheck box.If you save a copy of the SSL private key, you can reinstall it if the original one becomes corrupt.
- To encrypt the backup file, select theEncrypt Backup Filescheck box, and type and verify the passphrase.
- Use theLocal Retention Policysetting to specify how long you want to keep the backup file on BIG-IQ.
- To delete the copies of the backup after a certain number of days, selectDelete local backup copyand specify the number of days to keep the backup copy before deleting it.
- To keep copies of the backups indefinitely, selectNever Delete.
- To keep copies of backups remotely on a SCP or SFTP server:
- For theArchivesetting, select theStore archive copy of backupcheck box.
- For theLocationsetting, selectSCPorSFTP.
- In theIP Addressfield, type the IP address of the remote server where you want to store the archives.
- In theUser NameandPasswordfields, type the credentials to access this server.
- In theDirectoryfield, type the name of the directory where you want to store the archives on the remote server.
Storing a backup remotely means you can restore data to a BIG-IP device even if you can't access the archive in the BIG-IQ system directory.If you configure BIG-IQ to save backup files to a remote server and that server is unavailable during a scheduled backup, BIG-IQ ignores the local retention policy and retains the local copy of the backup file. This ensures that a backup is always available. To remove those local backups, you must delete them.Archived copies of backups are kept permanently on the remote server you specify. If you want to clear space on the remote server, you have to manually delete the backups. - Click theStartbutton at the bottom of the screen.
After the backup is created, it appears in the
Backup Files list and you can restore a managed BIG-IP device. When BIG-IQ creates a
backup, it saves it in the following format:
backup name_device name_time of backup.ucs
