Save command, bigpipe

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A command available on F5 BigIP platforms; used to save the current running configuration (in memory) to the locally stored configuration files used on system startup.

Usage Syntax

bigpipe base save

bigpipe save [all]

See the Usage Notes section for details of the different options.

Usage Notes

All existing files are renamed filename.bak (previous .bak files are deleted.)

The bigpipe base save command should logically be bigpipe save base as currently it suggests a bigpipe base command is available, which it is not. F5 don't seem to have noticed. This option saves relevant configuration commands and parameters to the bigip_base.conf and bigip_sys.conf files.

The bigpipe save command saves relevant configuration commands and parameters to the bigip_sys.conf, bigip.conf and bigip_local.conf files.

The bigpipe save all command saves relevant configuration commands and parameters to the bigip_base.conf, bigip_sys.conf, bigip.conf and bigip_local.conf files.

All the configuration files listed here are saved in the /config/ directory.

See the Configuration Files In Detail article for details of what configuration commands and parameters are saved to each file.

Bigpipe Usage Notes

font color=redFrom v9.4, be aware of the administrative partition that is currently active;/font use the bigpipe shell partition command to display the current active partition name and the bigpipe shell partition name command to change partitions.

A full command manual can be displayed using the man command followed by the command name, for example: man pool or by suffixing the command name with the help keyword, for example; bigpipe pool help.

In most cases, the font color=purpleshow/font keyword displays object status or statistics and the font color=purplelist/font keyword displays configuration. URemember/U, from v9.4, only objects in the currently active administrative partition will be displayed.

The bigpipe command can be abbreviated to just b (e.g. b help instead of bigpipe help.) Alternatively, (from v9.4,) you can use the bigpipe shell to enter commands without prefixing them with bigpipe.

Where curly or normal brackets {}' or () or quotes ' or exclamation mark ! are required as part of a command and you are not using the bigpipe shell, they must be proceeded with a back slash \ to prevent the BASH shell from parsing them as system commands.

font color=redDon't forget to save your changes using the bigpipe save all command as necessary./font noinclude/noinclude

The bigpipe command can be abbreviated to just b (e.g. b help instead of bigpipe help.) Alternatively, (from v9.4,) you can use the bigpipe shell to enter commands without prefixing them with bigpipe.

Typical Output

noinclude/noinclude

[user@device-one:Active] ~ # b save all
/config/bigip_base.conf was renamed to /config/bigip_base.conf.bak (96 lines).
/config/bigip_sys.conf was renamed to /config/bigip_sys.conf.bak (70 lines).
/config/bigip.conf was renamed to /config/bigip.conf.bak (458 lines).
/config/bigip_local.conf was renamed to /config/bigip_local.conf.bak (2 lines).

Related Commands

The bigpipe config command is used to save (or restore) some of the files saved by this command and other system configuration files to (or from) a User Configuration Set (UCS) file.

The bigpipe export command is used to save some of the configuration stored in the files saved by this command and other system configuration information to a Single Configuration File(SCF.)