How to backup and restore using python across cross hardware platform and OS version?

WOW, what a question!

Would love to sit down and work on a script to do this but I simply to not have the time currently.

QQ, you looking to backup and restore just full F5 system, so from a UCS file, or you looking at just backup core LTM or other module configuration i.e. not backing up the bigip_base.conf stuff?

looking to backup and restore full F5 system from a UCS file.

Using UCS will be very difficult as you will have a lot of oplimitations.

So TMOS version is one limit as you would need to restore to the same version.

With different hardware would need to check the network interfaces and ensure can configure them automatically to work with the UCS backup.

Even using SCF would be hard but could be a little easier than full UCS.

please provide suitable solution to capture info from F5 important files and convert the configuration to meet this requirement. For example, Step1: extract the ucs file on desktop Step2: convert the extracted file to meeting target hardware/os platform requirements. Step3: re-archive in ucs Step4: upload the usc file to target hardware/os platform successfully.

Its bit difficult to accommodate all condition in single script. There are so many product available in market.

Do you know any of such product?

F5 has BiG-IQ, Payoda has AppViewX, etc