Cisco Cisco Clean Access 3.5

With release 3.5(3) and above, Cisco Clean Access automatically creates daily snapshots of the Clean 
Access Manager database and preserves the most recent from the last 30 days. It also automatically 
creates snapshots before and after software upgrades, and before and after failover events. For upgrades 
and failovers, only the last 5 backup snapshots are kept. See 

 for 

additional details. 

It is recommended to create a backup of the CAM before making major changes to its configuration. 
Backing up the configuration from time to time also ensures a recent backup on hand of a known-good 
configuration profile, in case of a malfunction due to incorrect settings. Besides protecting against 
configuration data loss, snapshots provide an easy way to duplicate a configuration among several 
CAMs.

In the Administration > Backup page, type a name for the snapshot in the Database Snapshot Tag 
Name field. The field is populated with a name that incorporates the current time and date (such as 

10_10_05-16:34_snapshot

). You can either accept the default name or type another. 

Click Create Snapshot. The Clean Access Manager generates a snapshot file, which is added to the 
snapshot list.

Note that the file still physically resides on the Clean Access Manager machine. For archiving 
purposes, it can remain there. However, to back up a configuration for use in case of system failure, 
the snapshot should be downloaded to another computer. 

To download the snapshot to another computer, click either the Download icon or the tag name of 
the snapshot that you want to download: 

tag name

snapshot